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The insufficient access to housing and the commercialization of public space are most problematic aspects of urban development in Poland. As we witness the effects of neoliberalization in the urban policy sector – with an increased presence of private corporate actors combined with a withdrawal of the earlier so dominant public authorities – there is still no long-term policy in place to counteract the negative social as well as economic effects on the citizens. To the contrary, existing political order in many cities supports market solutions, while scaling down investments in public space, municipal housing or building for rent. To better explain the dynamics of urban policy, the paper uses a field theory approach (Martin, 2003), to analyse the role of developers and urban grassroots movements in planning and building of Polish cities. Data from formal and informal interviews with developers, urban activists and public authorities are used, supplemented by results of participatory observations at national conferences, government workshops and activists’ gatherings. Paper describes the ongoing ‘game of the city’ (Domaradzka and Wijkstrom, 2016) in which incumbents defend their dominant position and control over space, while a set of challengers seek to introduce new values and behaviours. It presents the wider context of Polish urban policy field and organizational practices of developers and urban activists to illustrate the field dynamics and actors’ changing strategies. The analysis also shows how the dominant narratives are shaped through re-defining the ‘right to the city’ frame and incorporating it into the developers’ agenda.

Drawing on insights from the sociology of markets, we offer an analytical review of market system dynamics (MSD) in consumer culture theory (CCT) research. We surface important theoretical gaps in current understanding and suggest future research areas. To extend the breadth and depth of MSD’s explanatory power in CCT research, we invite researchers to place greater emphasis on exploring four key issues: (1) differing institutional contexts and their influences on market dynamics; (2) the place and impact of the institutions of the family and religion in market shaping; (3) the role of race, ethnicity and nationality in market dynamics, within and across national borders; (4) conceptualizations of marketplaces as ambiguous environments wherein multiple ideologies, power regimes, and politics interact. In so doing, as a community of researchers, we can advance knowledge on not only what markets do in society but also on what markets do to society.

This article traces the origins of Kenneth Wilson's conception of effective field theories (EFTs) in the 1960s. I argue that what really made the difference in Wilson's path to his first prototype of EFT are his long-standing pragmatic aspirations and methodological commitments. Wilson's primary interest was to work on mathematically interesting physical problems and he thought that progress could be made by treating them as if they could be analyzed in principle by a sufficiently powerful computer. The first point explains why he had no qualms about twisting the structure of field theories; the second why he divided the state-space of a toy model field theory into continuous slices by following a standard divide-and-conquer algorithmic strategy instead of working directly with a fully discretized and finite theory. I also show how Wilson's prototype bears the mark of these aspirations and commitments and clear up a few striking ironies along the way., Comment: Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

The post-2000 political-economic crisis in Zimbabwe saw the migration of journalists as political and economic refugees. Many, if not all, of these claimed persecution at home and some amongst them established online publications with an interest on Zimbabwe. But some of the journalists that remained in Zimbabwe became activists in support of either the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) regime or the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Another group joined civil society whilst others joined either the ruling ZANU-PF party or the opposition political parties, mainly MDC. In the same context, some activists joined newsrooms. In this context, the distinction between journalism and political activism became increasingly blurred. The article, deploying Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, explores how and why this morphing of journalists into activists and vice versa unfolded and its impact on the journalistic field. The findings demonstrate that on one hand journalists morphed into activists through: switching into civil society; active involvement in party politics either as members or election candidates; openly campaigning for or against certain political parties and candidates; and writing political campaign material disguised as news. On the other hand, activists entered the journalistic field as columnists, correspondents or stringers, editors and, in one high profile case, a Ministry of Information official. The metamorphosis happened openly and underground, and it was caused by poverty, greed, the desire to migrate, disenchantment with economic challenges, state-sponsored repression of the media and the desire to secure one’s privileged position in the journalistic social field.

This paper has two aims. First, we apply Bourdieu’s field theory to investigate media discourse on race and immigration, demonstrating how features of news organizations influence news content. Sec...

The article builds on a recent literature that has sought to underscore the relevance of Bourdieu’s field theory for historical-sociological analysis. It draws attention to symbolic revolutions, a concept that has been given short shrift in this literature and even in Bourdieu’s own expositions of his field-theoretical apparatus. The article argues that symbolic revolutions denote a universal mechanism of field-internal change which extends and complements a conceptual battery of mostly structural universals of fields. In a synoptic reading of Bourdieu’s field-theoretical work, the article fleshes out an ideal type of symbolic revolutions, with special regard to its dialectical features. It adds further analytical purchase to the concept by highlighting continuities and parallels with the work of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Mannheim. Finally, it argues that more recent studies by other authors on transformations in the psychiatric field, the field of social and human sciences, and the political field are in fact discussing instances of symbolic revolutions. It thus shows how the concept can help identify common properties among highly heterogeneous phenomena, opening up new avenues for historical-sociological investigations that can more systematically relate the general and the particular.

This paper proposes and enriches the concept of technical potential energy based on field theory. On this basis, we analyze and verify the driving mechanism of technical potential energy on each stage of industry-university-research institution (IUR) collaborative innovation. Thus, the different effects on the different stages are unambiguous. First, the concept is defined based on three dimensions: the willingness of innovation subjects, the internal and external innovation environment, and participants’ attraction of innovation elements. Second, we analyze the promoting mechanism of technical potential energy in IUR collaborative innovation through conceptual model theory. Finally, system dynamics (SD) simulation analysis is used to verify the driving mechanism. The results show that technical potential energy promotes the establishment of IUR collaborative innovation alliances through the willingness and environment dimensions in the preparation stage. In the operation stage, technical innovation synergy and transfer synergy are driven by technical potential energy through the element dimension. In the extension stage, technical potential difference stimulates the technical spillover effect and facilitates innovation synergy. After entering the operation stage, the promoting effect of technical potential energy decreases somewhat, and the promoting effect of the technical potential energy of enterprises on IUR collaboration is higher than that of universities and research institutes.

This theoretical essay considers how the institution of journalism, now threatened by authoritarian attack and other challenges, has been conceptualized and proposes a refinement on previous defini...

The author reviews current examples of institutionalized homo-, bi-, and transphobia expressed by right-wing politicians and the Catholic Church in Poland. He uses the Gestalt theory of shame to un...

This research applied Bourdieusian field theory to explain the forms of resistance exercised by single mothers exposed to the cultural and economic domination of Australian welfare-to-work policy. The mothers were affected by policy changes that reduced their social security benefit income and brought them into the field of activation policies. Unlike other studies focusing on well-being effects, this study focused on understanding resistance, that is, how welfare subjects like single mothers exercise resistance in dominating contexts. Bourdieusian field theory was applied to explain these resistances as a reaction to a social policy reclassification and to identity the enabling resources for it. This article observes the conditions that enabled single mothers to convert individual forms of resistance into collective action. In this respect, Husu’s adaptation of Bourdieusian field theory to social movement studies provided insight into how dominating fields like those of activation policy, generate resistances and social movements.

Journalism has taken a technological turn, as reflected in industry narratives that suggest innovation is key to a strong financial future. This pursuit of technological innovation is consistent wi...

Utilizing a constellation of conceptual tenets drawn from critical digital technology theory, field theory and concepts of digital democracy, this article argues that the post-coup period in Zimbab...

This study investigated the factors that parents considered when sending their children back to school after the COVID-19 outbreak and analyzed the dilemma that parents were facing. A total of 1067 questionnaires were collected through snowball sampling. After three levels of coding based on Grounded Theory and Field Theory, parents’ key concerns were categorized as four personal factors (i.e., intuitive expectation, health issue, learning effectiveness, perceived epidemic safety) and three environmental factors (i.e., school environment, family environment, social environment). By factor weight analysis using the Kruskal–Wallis H test, a field model of factors that affect parents’ willingness was set up. Results indicated that learning effectiveness is the most critical factor affecting parents’ willingness. By considering both personal and environmental factors, most parents were not satisfied with the effect of home-based online education and expressed their willingness to send their children back to school and resume classes; however, they also worried about students’ epidemic awareness and self-protection abilities. Students’ development highly depends on the social atmosphere, a regular schedule, and environmental support from schools, which can hardly be achieved by home-based online learning. The findings suggest that the joint efforts of society, schools, and families are needed on the issue of students returning to school after the COVID-19 outbreak.

Drawing on data from Senegal, this article develops the concept of pockets of world society to explain how adherence to a liberal vision of gay rights emerges within an otherwise illiberal legal landscape. Pockets of world society appear at the site where the global field of human rights penetrates the national juridical field. Senegal’s Ministry of Justice sits at this juncture. It is a member of both fields but tends toward a logic of international imitation. The ministry accommodates world society’s stance on homosexuality, offering a moderate re-interpretation of its nation’s criminalization, and quietly circumventing local law to enact global scripts of sexual actorhood. In stark contrast, Senegalese courts, located solely within the national juridical field, adhere to a logic of popular representation, rejecting sexual self-determination, insisting on national sovereignty, and carrying out the nation’s criminalization of homosexuality in accordance with both law and collective will. These conflicting logics are driven by external pressures, field membership and position, professional trajectories, and sources of legal legitimacy and social accountability. Finally, I contend that the conflict in Senegal spotlights not only world society’s limits, but its persistent strength and its ability to disrupt the coherence of the law.

Artificial potential fields (APF) and reinforcement learning (RL) are two common methods for the intelligent decision of autonomous vehicles. The process of vehicle driving includes the constraints of vehicle dynamics, traffic rules, road conditions, and other traffic vehicles, which are quite complex. The existing APF methods perform inadequately since they consider only limited factors and their effects. As such, it is difficult to adapt to increasingly complex traffic environments. In this paper, we propose a new concept, compound traffic field (CTF). The concept makes use of field theory to model various traffic environments based on the physical properties and traffic rules, besides, introduces the concept of the force correction field to reveal the interaction between the vehicle and the surrounding environment during driving. Moreover, an intelligent decision method and a co-simulation platform are established based on combining RL and CTF. The method has passed the tests in various scenarios built by PreScan and compared with the Conventional APF and modeless algorithm. For solving intelligent decision problems in the complex environment provides an applicable field model and its application method.

This paper engages with the theme of disgrace from a Bourdieusian point of view. Starting out from a specific definition of ‘grace’ in terms of misrecognition, it goes on to consider some of the ways in which disgrace can be generated and some of the ways it can be handled by the disgraced party. While there are certainly many intra-field modalities of the genesis of disgrace, including violation of the rules of the game, the paper also emphasizes that disgrace can be generated by cross-field events, necessitating a switch of perspective from individuals in one field to individuals in multiple fields. This is also true of strategies for coping with disgrace.

Innovation does not just involve the creation of new products, but also includes the need for new kinds of processes and organizations. Field theory can help us understand why some innovations are more piecemeal and others more revolutionary. It explicitly links innovation to the process of the emergence, adjustment, and transformation of markets (conceived of as fields). To illustrate this perspective, the case of the transition in the U.S. from a mortgage market dominated by savings and loan banks to the emergence of mortgage securitization dominated by the government sponsored enterprises and the largest private banks, is explicated. Field theory helps us understand the logic of this transition and the myriad players and innovations that helped produce a large part of what we consider to be modern finance. The case also shows the limits of economic theories of financial innovation and the sociology of finance. I end with a discussion of how field theory can inform subsequent research on innovation.

If we want to understand Bion’s psychoanalysis and analytic field theory, its most creative development, there is one point we must always bear in mind. Bion conceives individual therapy as group therapy. Consequently, he invites the analyst to put the patient’s past and related causal theories in the background. Rather she should focus on the emotional transformations that occur in the here and now. This is very different from observing the Freudian principles of oneiric and transference distortion, on the one hand, and the (re)construction of the patient’s past history, on the other. It is also different from paying attention to so-called deep unconscious fantasies or enactments. Such a crucial aspect, though, is often misunderstood. Here the concepts of the grid and of the regression or “in search of existence” graph are employed as a way of clarifying it. Trying at any given moment to grasp the direction of the vector that represents the sum of the emotional turbulences affecting the field, whether regressive or progressive (in other words, whether reflecting the growth of the mind or its destruction), implies using a radical technique to achieve receptiveness to the unconscious. The analyst treats all narratives in the session as if they were the recounting of a dream dreamt by the analytic dyad or group of two. A few clinical vignettes are presented by way of illustration.

The COVID-19 Pandemic created a two-fold challenge for journalists: first, the task of gathering and distributing information vital to the responses of the public, and second, the challenge of miti...

In order to understand the 'late' Bion, i.e. his production from Learning from Experience onwards, the most difficult and controversial, it is worth re-reading not only the essays in Second Thoughts, but also Experiences in Groups. The hypothesis of this work is that Bion spent his life as a scholar - probably without even being fully aware of it, since he never talks about it - to transpose his theory of groups into his theory of individual psycho-analysis. To illustrate this thesis, the author systematically compares some of the principles of both. Going back to Experiences in Groups, then, is also useful for another reason. Bion revolutionises theory but still works as a Kleinian. Despite brilliant suggestions, he does not fully develop a new technique. To have a tool box that anyone can use, we have to wait the analytic field theory, which is an original development of his thought. In this model the analyst sees in the analytical pair not two isolated subjects that interact, but a group. There is no 'fact' of analysis that cannot be heard as unconsciously co-created. Here then, highlighting the group inspiration of late Bion's helps us to grasp the meaning of this technical principle, so easily misunderstood, and vice versa.

New challenges in the development of teaching methods lead to a large number of new tools, methods, and approaches to teaching. The structure and functions of a class as a basic social group in edu...

Propaganda has been increasingly digitized, popularized, and aestheticized globally. This article focuses on the restyling of propaganda in China, particularly the role of Chinese state-run media i...

This article aims to analyze the emergence of challengers of mobilization in the case of a movement against the redevelopment plan of Rumah Susun Klender in East Jakarta using a field theory approach. Mobilization issues around housing in Indonesia are not new, but it is still dominated by evictions issues. Therefore, the Rumah Susun Klender case can be considered unique. Using the case study method, data were obtained through several observation techniques, such as document study and indepth interviews with 10 informants. The results of the analysis reveal that the transformation of people resistance into the emergence of Paguyuban Tandingan (rival organization) as challenger of mobilization is not merely caused by redevelopment plans. Indeed, it was generated by an initial contention (internal dynamics) that occurred between the residents and the Association of Apartment Owners and Occupants (P3SRS). The residents who are anti-redevelopment was consolidated by, and joined with, the rival organization to take over P3SRS’ authority as a governance unit to achieve one goal: cancelling the redevelopment plan.

The article presents the characteristics of the structural components of the competence of a specialist of educational institutions, systematizes the methods that contribute to their development. The purpose of the article is description of role methods aimed at forming the competence of a specialist of an educational institution. Research methods and techniques. The following methods are used in the research: method of theoretical analysis of scientific literature, synthesis method, constructive method, generalization method. Results of the research. The list of role methods aimed at development of components of competence, contains both author’s methods and modified ones based on K. Levin’s field theory and theoretical foundations of the role approach presented in the works of P. Gornostai. In addition, we propose to use role-playing methods developed and tested within the psychodrama of Ya. Moreno and A. Schutzenderger. The role methods, we have systematized, contribute to the formation of the individual’s awareness of his own value and uniqueness («Dominant roles», «Building the role atom of an individual», «Role regions»); the ability to overcome the negative consequences of the mechanism of alienation that prevails in modern society, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their personality, integrating them into a holistic self («Who am I?», «Metaphor»); the ability to overcome stereotypes of behaviour and adjust rigid roles, to identify the role expectations of the subjects of social interaction and to realize their own («Reconstruction», «Interaction of symbolic representations»); develop spontaneity and creativity (psychodramatic role-playing methods and «Magic Shop»); to form components of role competence (modelling of role situations and psychodramatic method «Pedagogical role play»). Conclusions. Thus, the proposed methods are only conditionally correlated with certain components of the competence of a specialist as each of them to a greater or lesser extent contributes to the development of all components of competence. Therefore, in our opinion, to achieve the optimal result it is advisable to use the proposed methods in combination, rather than separately. In further research we plan to develop a program for formation of specialist competence using the proposed role methods.

El estudio analiza la creación y consolidación del Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez desde la teoría de campo de Pierre Bourdieu. Dicho certamen, que anualmente tiene lugar en México y cuya finalidad es la de presentar música de concierto actual, ha constituido un escenario musical de referencia para dicho país de 1979 a la fecha. Por tanto, a lo largo de este escrito se estudia el surgi- miento y desarrollo de este espacio intentando comprender el contexto en que tuvo lugar, su fundación y cómo llegó a consolidarse en el panorama musical mexicano, a la vez que discernir la importancia que tuvo Manuel Enríquez en tanto artífice del Foro. Para ello se genera un trazo histórico por el que es posible comprender una parte importante de su funcionamiento, esto es, observar cómo está constituido, cuáles son sus dinámicas y qué tipo de habitus ha generado.

Since 2014, “plot twist news” as a controversial news phenomenon has appeared extensively in Chinese digital communication. In the context of journalism, this refers to news facts provided in follo...

In recent years, a growing number of media outlets such as The Associated Press, The Washington Post and the BBC have adopted “automated journalism,” a solution understood as the generation of jour...

Based on contributions from the sociology of science in the field of Science Education, this article aims to explore and elucidate the concept of fields, formulated by Pierre Bourdieu, in the objects of study of this area. This theoretical study is structured in three parts, which are articulated throughout the text: a synthesis of the general and invariable principles of fields; an elaboration of an analogy between the different field theories (sociology and physics); a discussion about the appropriation of field theories in research studies on Science Education that use them. We discuss the field as a social space, the agents’ habitus, the positions in the field, disputes and interests, distribution of the specific capital, limits, boundaries, and the field autonomy. An interpretation of this complex Bourdieusian concept was defended, in a way to determine the limits of the field and their agents, based on how research has appropriated it. Therefore, a theoretical framework was advanced, coming up with the possible and effective articulations between Science Education and Bourdieu’ Sociology of Science.

Leadership is a popular area of study but appears to be locked within a never-ending loop of retroactive behavioral analysis. Field theory offers modern leadership study an opportunity to break this cycle, potentially unlocking previously undiscovered relationships within the leadership phenomenon. The authors evaluate field theory for Christian application via Trentham’s principle of inverse consistency. After reorientation toward a Christian worldview, field theory is demonstrated as a valid theoretical construct to inform Christian leadership praxis.

With the growing attention to political dimensions of sustainability transitions (STs), researchers have shown interest in theoretical frameworks from policy studies and sociology. A framework that has growing popularity is the theory of strategic action fields (SAF) as developed by Fligstein and McAdam (2011; 2012). This review shows 1) how the integrated and holistic approach of SAF theory can contribute to growing interest in ST research in institutions, power, and agency; and 2) how ST researchers have modified and extended SAF theory. Based on a systematic sample of publications, the study identifies five theoretical clusters of SAF theory in ST research: actor relations and resources; change, emergence, and destabilization of fields; field rules; agency, framing, and coalitions; and strategic action in an interfield matrix. The potential of field theory as an analytical framework for ST research is discussed and critically assessed.

This article attempts to bridge a divide between the empirical use of Bourdieu’s concepts and the theoretical discussion of field theory with regard to education. I ask how a school can be ‘interna...

This article uses Bourdieusian field theory to examine how journalistic practices contributed to a multi-mediated moral panic about ‘African gangs’ in Melbourne, Australia. Empirical insight is supplied via interviews with journalists who identified traditional media outlets as ‘secondary definers’ that amplified and legitimised this racialised threat construction. Participants attributed the intense and sensationalised media coverage to the political climate, the newsworthiness of racialised ‘folk devils’, and the economic and technological transformation of the journalistic field. These transformations were perceived to have negatively influenced journalistic standards by incentivising the efficient production of commodifiable content. Participants described how these structural changes were filtered through the social personalities of different news outlets; they shaped, and were reproduced through, distinct managerial cultures, editorial routines and journalistic habitus. The emergent nomos (‘rules of the game’) was perceived to constrain the autonomy of journalists, particularly those lacking cultural capital, and limit opportunities for contestation of the ‘African gangs’ narrative. Journalists seemingly adapted by engaging in practices which reflected their attempts to negotiate these conditions and establish coherent narrative identities. In some cases, this entailed the neutralisation of what journalists recognised as ethically questionably reporting practices.

Michael Polanyi introduced the concept of fields in the last several pages of Personal Knowledge. In this essay I examine whether the last-minute addition of fields advances his explanation of anthropogenesis. Polanyi’s view of the role of fields in solving problems and discovery plus their place in ontogenesis and phylogenesis is examined and found not to be wholly satisfactory. Alternative explanations of the factors advancing discovery and problem solving are advanced.

Anne Conway (1631–79) produced only one short treatise – The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy – but addressed key problems in the philosophy of religion which are still much discussed today. The most significant of these are the problem of religious diversity and the problem of evil. Although the sources of her ideas may be found in the Kabbalah of Isaac Luria and the work of the Cambridge Platonists and the Quaker George Keith, among others, she offers her own unorthodox solutions to these problems. The idea of Christ as an indwelling mediator of the divine who assists us in our moral endeavours is designed to appeal to those of all religions and none, while her claim that God created creatures knowing that they would eventually be redeemed, and that suffering promotes moral development which leads to redemption offers a novel response to the problem of evil. Conway's work is also important for its influence on the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and some have argued that it prefigures, at least in outline, the field theory of modern physics.

Ivan Kerchief, Oleg Mirochnik, Larysa Pereverzieva APPLICATION OF FIELD THEORY APPARATUS FOR DESCRIPTION OF AIR MOVEMENT IN MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF PREVENTION OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS OF TECHNOGENIC CHARACTERISTIC CHARACTER The main provisions of the field theory for the description of air movement processes in the closed premises of administrative buildings in the conditions of emergence of an emergency situation of technogenic character are defined in the work. Based on which the main assumptions are made regarding the problem of mathematical description of the process of air injection into the local volume using a filter ventilation unit in the interests of protecting people from the damaging factors of radioactive and chemical contamination in enclosed office buildings in a man-made emergency. A detailed analysis of the existing regulatory and methodological framework on the issues under consideration allowed us to state the following - known means of protection against radioactive and chemical contamination of the atmosphere are implemented in special protective structures, which are in large numbers in Ukraine, but for objective reasons (obsolete physically and morally) can not be used for its intended purpose. Existing methods of building temporary shelters cannot be implemented due to the rapid development of emergencies at present. Therefore, it is necessary to develop and propose new designs of special rooms in office buildings in the interests of protection and rescue of people from the harmful factors of hazardous substances sprayed into the atmosphere as a result of man-made disasters, which in turn should be based on modern methodological apparatus. closed premises of administrative buildings in the conditions of emergence of an emergency of technogenic character. Given the above, the properties of the vector function used to describe magnetic and other physical fields that do not contradict the provisions of gas dynamics and can be used to describe the problems of air injection in the local volume were considered. It is noted that the direction and modulus of the vector determine the direction and velocity of the air flow through the elementary site. In addition, the vector function allows you to represent (conditionally divide) the air flow as elements of lines or elements of surfaces. Thus, the properties of the vector function allow to use it to describe the processes of air injection into the local volume in the mathematical model of protection of people from the damaging factors of radioactive and chemical pollution in temporary shelters in office buildings in order to protect the population from the damaging factors of radioactive and chemical pollution. arising from man-made accidents and catastrophes. Key words: emergency situation, field theory, administrative buildings.

Long trivialized as the “toy department,” sports journalism nevertheless represents an enduring, and vital subfield within journalism. As with many niches of journalism, sports journalism has needed to adjust to changes resulting from the technology of the field. In particular, digital sports journalism faces pressure from adjacent fields, represented in team and player media, which perform many of the same tasks historically attributed to sports journalism. Through the lens of field theory, the present study reports on long-form interviews with 47 sports journalists who self-defined their work as digital journalism. This study argues that the perception of insurgents—team media that prior research demonstrated is often seen as a part of the field—has caused digital sports journalists to view their work as economically vital to the individual newsroom, but not topically essential to the journalistic field at large.

In recent years, sexual field theory has emerged as the cutting edge of the sociology of sexuality. This paper turns Bourdieu’s own formulation of field back upon sexual field theory to investigate sites where sexual field theorists break from Bourdieu and what questions these sites of divergence raise. I pinpoint two unresolved issues in sexual field theory: (1) the ambiguous boundaries of sexual fields and (2) the obfuscation of power. Both points relate to the autonomy of sexual life, which sexual field theorists may overstate. This paper recommends new lines of analysis which may advance field theory more broadly, the sociology of sexuality, and the feminist reinvention of Bourdieu.

In this article I seek to utilise Bourdieu’s field theory to examine the relation between the artistic and culinary fields. I examine how the field has changed since the mid-twentieth century and how, since the 1960s, the autonomy of the chef drastically changed the culinary field. Focusing upon elite chefs of the twenty-first century, such as Ferran Adrià and Massimo Bottura, I analyse how European haute cuisine has developed and how dialogues between the chef and diner have become a defining feature of contemporary haute cuisine. Overall I examine how this autonomy occurred and what it potentially means for haute cuisine in the future. Throughout, I reference the concepts of Bourdieu’s field theory, legitimation, and heteronomy/autonomy to explain how these changes within the culinary field occurred and what it means for the field.

Through the lens of theories of field and normalization process, this research seeks to understand technology’s current role in how self-identifying digital journalists define the field. The defini...

In the United States, journalists covering white nationalist groups find themselves in an impossible situation: how do you cover the newsworthy rallies—and the concerns raised by the local communit...

This article explores how musical culture is created and recreated in multi-dimensional flows and cultural transfers between two countries, Brazil and Angola, and in spaces that extrapolate national boundaries and confound cultural hierarchies. It will discuss the encounter between two national fields of musical production through the Brazilian Kalunga Project, which helps to understand how musical movements are organized between transnational popular cultures. I adopt field theory, which comprehends fields of meaning as relational principles, whose heuristic force is shaped by their historicity and temporality, rather than by their spacial characteristics. With my focus on the Kalunga Project, I am interested in the cultural transformations that operate in such fields of cultural exchange as these are fostered by national and international flows of goods and symbols, and are shaped by various mediators, such as musicians, producers, critics, journalists and others between Brazil and Angola. In other words, the article focuses on cultural practices and productions in artistic production as a whole, rather than on individuals, institutions or specific national contexts.

Research on economization processes is increasingly taking seriously the social and material processes through which various policy domains are transformed into economic problems and solutions. This article engages “Value Added Modeling” (VAM) in teacher evaluation systems as a case study in economization. VAM is a statistical technology for evaluating the effectiveness of schoolteachers using student test scores, which wrests authority for the determination of quality teaching away from education professionals and toward quantitative economic modelers. Mobilizing field theory, we trace a half century of changing relationships among economists, other academics, and various policy audiences (from media to philanthropists to state and federal government) in struggles to define education policy concerning teacher quality. We show that economization is a set of overlapping, sometimes contradictory processes that can take different forms: in this case, the spread of an “economic style of reasoning” or the establishment of “economic policy devices.” The case of VAM shows stages of economization in which processes first proceeded independently of one another, then interacted in contradictory ways, and finally, mutually reinforced one another. What primarily drove these interactions was the struggle for scientific capital within the economics discipline and the changing place of education policy and VAM within it. Ultimately, VAM’s original role as a policy device for evaluating and selecting individual teachers has foundered even as it has become an important tool for economists to accrue scientific capital and expand their style of reasoning to broader audiences.

El objetivo de este trabajo es abordar el pensamiento crítico latinoamericano desde la perspectiva de la teoría de los campos de Pierre Bourdieu. En ese sentido, el pensamiento crítico es considerado como el objeto de estudio y el campo como la metodología para analizarlo. El pensamiento crítico latinoamericano ha atravesado por varias etapas, sólo la última, identificada como pensamiento decolonial es la que se considera para poner a revisión. Los extractos de la teoría de los campos utilizados para encontrar los objetos del juego del pensamiento decolonial permiten identificar la modernidad-colonialidad y las relaciones saber-poder como elementos constitutivos en la nueva etapa del campo del pensamiento latinoamericano. El ejercicio de observación del enfoque decolonial comprueba que el trabajo intelectual en América Latina para explicar la realidad del conjunto de países de la región, conocido como pensamiento crítico latinoamericano, conforma un campo en el sentido bourdiano. The objective of this work is to approach Latin American critical thinking from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory. In that sense, critical thinking is considered as the object of study and the field as the methodology to analyze it. Latin American critical thinking has gone through several stages, only the last one, identified as decolonial thinking, is what is considered to do the analysis. Excerpts from the theory of the fields used to find the objects of the game of decolonial thinking allow us to identify modernity-coloniality and knowledge-power relations as constitutive in the new stage of the Latin American thought field. The decolonial thought review exercise proves that intellectual work in Latin America to explain the reality of the region’s group of countries, known as Latin American critical thinking, forms a field in the Bourdian sense.

My discussion of Dr. Stern’s comparative paper (this issue) of Relational and Bionian perspectives focuses primarily on the difficulties in comparing two psychoanalytic clinical approaches. Each th...

Donnel Stern (this issue) broadens his description of emergence in relational theory to encompass what he defines as a “dream sense,” a concept via which he attempts to translate the oneiric work o...

In recent years I have become interested in Bion and neo-Bionian field theory, but the origin of my interest in dreaming does not lie in scholarly or clinical sources. The source of the idea of the...

This paper is a continuation of the comparison of interpersonal/relational theory and Bionian field theory that I began in two articles that appeared in Psychoanalytic Dialogues in 2013. The paper ...