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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