I came across this interesting project by Michael Burawoy earlier. He conceives of a whole series of imagined ‘meetings’ between Bourdieu and leading political thinkers, elaborating his own understanding of Bourdieu’s work by considering its relationship with important intellectual trends. I’ve only looked through the Mills one so far but these do look very interesting and worth a thorough read:
1. Sociology as a Combat Sport: Bourdieu Meets Bourdieu
Bourdieu in South Africa: order meets disorder
Resurrecting the subaltern: bodies of defiance
3. Cultural Domination: Gramsci Meets Bourdieu
Subaltern crowds challenge authority
4. Colonialism and Revolution: Fanon Meets Bourdieu
The state and the people, symbolic violence and physical violence
5.Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Freire Meets Bourdieu
Discipline, the canon and the ‘imperialism of reason”
6.The Antinomies of Feminism: Beauvoir Meets Bourdieu
Gentle violence, brutal violence and the struggle to empower women
7.Intellectuals and Their Publics: Mills Meets Bourdieu
The ‘Realpolitik of reason’ meets the symbolic world of politics
8.Homo Ludens vs. Homo Habitus: Burawoy Meets Bourdieu
Bourdieu, symbolic order and the ‘margin of freedom’: four sketches for a theory of change
