File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1996/96-01-02.102, message 119


Subject: introduction
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 95 14:39:43 MST
From: "Alan Smart" <asmart-AT-acs.ucalgary.ca>


	In response to the suggestion that we introduce
ourselves, I am an anthropologist teaching at the Univ. of
Calgary in Canada.  I have done field research in Hong Kong and
China.  My interest in Bourdieu stems primarily from work in
political economy and practices which involve conversions in
areas of underregulated or ambiguous property rights (sales of
squatter dwellings, biotechnology, capitalist investment in
socialist China, etc.).  Currently, neoclassical economists are
involved in efforts to extend their approaches to the fields of
the other social sciences, and it seemed to me that Bourdieu's
project to develop an economy of practices offered an alternative
perspective which would demonstrate that the economy in the
narrow sense itself depended upon symbolic and social practices.
Alan Smart
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 1N4
Canada
asmart-AT-acs.ucalgary.ca


   

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