Bourdieusian Prospects contributes to scholarship on Bourdieusian sociology, bringing it face to face with other theoretical developments in a changing empirical world. Contributors ask what the contours of future Bourdieusian social theory might look like and begin to map this out, both travelling alongside and breaking with Bourdieu in the pro

Lisa Adkins is BHP Billiton Chair of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia and Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Tampere and the University of Turku, Finland.

Caragh Brosnan is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Australia.

Steven Threadgold is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Australia.

1. Introduction: The Prospects of a Bourdieusian Sociology, (Caragh Brosnan and Steven Threadgold)

2. Learning with Bourdieu: Pedagogy, Cosmology and Potty-Training, (Greg Noble)

3. Travelling with Bourdieu: Elite Schools and the Cultural Logics and Limits of Global Mobility, (Jane Kenway

4. Bourdieu and the Future of Knowledge in the University, (Caragh Brosnan)

5. Pierre Bourdieu: State, Enlightenment and the Scottish Literary Field, (Bridget Fowler)

6. Capitalising Culture: The Political Career of a Governmental Actor, (Tony Bennett)

7. Objects and Materials: With, against and beyond Bourdieu, (Elizabeth B. Silva)

8. Hermeneutic Bourdieu, (Simon Susen)