Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 12:19:54 +0000
From: "karl.maton" <karl.maton-AT-pop.ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: List check


Hi Roger and Brian, and everyone .... I'm glad to see the list alive again!

In case anyone is wondering, the latest issue of Space and Culture (vol 
6, issue 1) is devoted to the work of Bourdieu.
The contents page is:
(Damn ... I cannot find a contents page online, so will write one myself 
here abbreviating):

An introduction to the issue by the guest editor: Nicholas Packwood

Setha Low
Embodied Space(s): Anthropological theories of body, space and culture

Michael Grenfell & Cheryl Hardy
Field manoeuvres: Bourdieu and the Young British Artists
(Hi, Mike!)

Brian Rourke
Cultural capital accumulation on a world scale: the role of imperialist 
theodicies within metropolitan literary fields

Karl Maton
Reflexivity, Relationism and Research: Pierre Bourdieu and the epistemic 
conditions of social scientific knowledge

Roger Cook
Andy Warhol, Capitalism, Culture and Camp


If anyone wants a copy of my article, then email me with an address.

I cannot add the abstracts of everyone here because I couldn't find the 
contents online to just copy and paste, but the abstract for mine is:



Karl Maton
Reflexivity, Relationism and Research: Pierre Bourdieu and the epistemic 
conditions of social scientific knowledge

Pierre Bourdieus epistemic reflexivity is the corner-stone of his 
intellectual enterprise, underpinning his claims to provide distinctive 
and scientific knowledge of the social world. In this paper I consider 
what this notion offers for research and how it needs to be developed 
further to underpin progress in social science. First, I argue that many 
reflexive research practices are sociological, individualistic and 
narcissistic and contrast this to Bourdieus conception of epistemic 
reflexivity as epistemological, collective and objective. I then 
illustrate how, despite his intentions, this conception when enacted 
tends towards the very pitfalls it is intended to avoid. Building on a 
developing conceptualisation of the relations of knowledge, I identify 
this problem as intrinsic to Bourdieus framework, showing how it 
bypasses the significance of knowledge structures and so provides the 
social but not the epistemological conditions for social scientific 
knowledge. I argue that Bourdieus reflexivity objectifies 
objectification but needs development to help achieve objective 
knowledge. I conclude by introducing the notion of epistemic capital 
as a first step towards developing a properly epistemic reflexivity and 
so realising the potential of Bourdieus enterprise.



-- 
With best wishes,

Karl

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