En route to the city: decisive moments in Bourdieu's theorizing on geographic space

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https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-6992-202237030011

Keywords:

Pierre Bourdieu; Social Space; Physical Space; the house; the country; the city

Abstract

The article explores decisive moments in which Bourdieu has tackled, at both the theoretical and empirical levels, the sociological problem of the relationship between the structures of social space and the structures of physical space. Questioning the naïve reading according to which the anti-substantialist relationism of his thought deprived him of analytical instruments that are necessary for the elucidation of the physical environments of social life, the text retrieves the geographic insights lodged within key occasions of Bourdieu’s sociological oeuvre: the ethno-sociology of Algerian society, which includes the investigations of the gendered space of the Kabyle house and the forced “uprooting” of peasants; Bourdieu’s research on the effects of the growing urbanization of his native region of Béarn in the 1960s; and, finally, the reflections on urban space that he produced in a later phase of his career.   

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Author Biography

Gabriel Peters, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

Professor do Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, Brasil. Doutor em Sociologia pelo Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ).

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Published

2022-12-19

How to Cite

Peters, G. (2022). En route to the city: decisive moments in Bourdieu’s theorizing on geographic space. Sociedade E Estado, 37(03), 1003–1025. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-6992-202237030011