Bourdieu and social movements theories: Some preliminary remarks on a possible conceptual cross-fertilization in the context of (post-)Yugoslav anti-war and peace activism

Sociologija

关键词: Bourdieu;    social movements;    habitus;    field;    (post-)Yugoslav anti-war activism;   

DOI  :  10.2298/SOC1004377B

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper puts forth and calls for further unpacking of a potentiallyfruitful conceptual cross-fertilization between various social movementstheories and Bourdieu’s sociology of practice. Following some of my mostimportant predecessors, I argue that this theoretical hybridization couldaccommodate many threads of social movements research that otherwise wouldnot cohere into a rounded theory. Bourdieu’s powerful conceptual armoury isboth parsimonious and flexible and seems particularly well-suited to addressthe problematic issues pertaining to agency and structure in the field ofsocial movements. In the second section of the paper, I call for anexploration of Yugoslav anti-war and pacifist activism immediately beforeand during the wars of Yugoslav succession. I perceive a number ofpolitically and organizationally heterogeneous initiatives, taking placethroughout the demised country, as a case that can be used to empiricallytest the proposed theoretical considerations. Yugoslav anti-war and pacifistactivism has yet to receive the sociological attention that it deserves. Itis a complex social phenomenon calling for a sophisticated and systematicexamination which should position it between its antecedents - the embryonicforms of extra-institutional engagement during Yugoslav communism - and itsdivergent posterity, mostly circumscribed within the national fields ofnon-governmental organizations.

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