File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1996/96-01-02.102, message 55


Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 13:40:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Henry Farrell <farrelhj-AT-gusun.acc.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Re: On line reading group - Introduction to Refl...



Bryan Alexander gave a brief bio and account of his interests in his 
email. Given the wide range of Bourdieu's thought, and the various people 
it attracts, it might be a good idea for everyone to do this, and 
lay their personal interests and disciplinary starting points on the 
table. If we're going to avoid debate in which proponents of an 
anthropologist's Bourdieu, an historian's Bourdieu etc talk past each 
other, we probably should state our original positions and acknowledge 
the semi-conscious disciplinary prejudices embedded in those positions. 
We should also be problematising our positions as academics (those of us 
who are teaching or engaged in academic research/study) as well, but we 
have to make a start somewhere.

As for me, I'm originally from Ireland.
I'm finishing coursework for a Ph.D in Government (read 
Political Science) at Georgetown, conjoint with an interdisciplinary 
Masters in German and European Studies (PS, History, Economics, 
International Relations, Cultural Studies and a smattering of 
Anthropology). My main interest at the moment is the interaction between 
culture and rationality (a debate which Bourdieu's notion of habitus 
manages to transcend in some respects - darn handy indeed) and in particular 
the cultural supports of market systems in Western industrial 
democracies. My dissertation, funding permitting, will concentrate on Italy.


Henry Farrell
Georgetown University - Dept. of Government/Centre for German and 
European Studies



   

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