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The Sociological Review Monographs 72/4
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The Sociological Review Monographs 72/4
Revisiting Culture and Society: Towards a Politics of Social Transformation. Essays in honour of Bridget Fowler

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October 2024 | SAGE Publications Ltd
Revisiting Culture and Society: Towards a Politics of Social Transformation honours the work of Prof. Bridget Fowler, a key figure within British sociology, incisive expositor of the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu, long-standing contributor to debates within Marxism, feminism and social theory more broadly, and the author of pioneering empirical accounts of – inter alia – the reading of popular romances, and the uneven terrain of collective memory as revealed in the formation of newspaper obituaries. The volume thus brings together a collection of new essays, cohering around three themes, but which share Fowler’s characteristic commitment to challenging inequality and to unpacking the politics of culture. One group of chapters draw on empirical and scholarly research in order to raise novel questions about a diverse range of cultural practices: the construction of talent in professional dance; the everyday uses of poetry; the inequalities that structure the making and drinking of wine; the occluded history of the workers’ photography movement; and the pivotal symbolic role of the art critic in constructing the public perception of modern art. These studies are placed in conversation with others which reflect on ways in which social and historical change occurs: through a consideration of the social role of the ‘parvenu’ within particular intellectual fields; through intellectual recovery of the largely forgotten writing of Raya Dunayevskaya; and through an intersectional account of the role of Black feminists in struggles over reproductive rights in France and its overseas territories. A third group of essays throw a more reflexive light on questions of academic and sociological practice: these questions are highlighted, firstly, in an extended interview with Bridget Fowler herself, illustrated with photographs from her son, the artist Luke Fowler; and they are raised further in essays which reflect on the crucial but neglected work of the translator within intellectual fields; and on the meanings and sources of hope that can be defended in the neoliberal university. The collection also includes framing contributions from two of Bridget Fowler’s long-standing interlocuters: Profs. Gisele Sapiro and Leslie Sklair.

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ISBN: 9781036205768
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