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Issue 2 · June 2025 · Special edition
Transnational Fields of Cultural Production
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Editorial
The thematic part of the second issue of Practical Sense unites articles on transnational fields of cultural production. As the recently published volume Impérialismes (2023, various translations forthcoming) makes clear, Bourdieu and his collaborators worked on a broadly conceived research program on “internationalization” and “globalization” since the late 1980s and 1990s. Some of this work, like Bourdieu’s article on “The International Circulation of Ideas” (original 1989), has been frequently translated and is relatively well known. Other parts of the research program, however, have not circulated widely, were never published in the first place, or have otherwise remained largely invisible.
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The current issue contains articles on respectively the global space of cinema by Julien Duval, the transnational literary field by Gisèle Sapiro, the global field of art by Larissa Buchholz, the transnationalization of the social and human sciences by Johan Heilbron, a joint interview with Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni and Ian Merkel on the inequality of North-South cultural exchanges by Carolina Pulici and Jéssica Ronconi.
Each one of these relatively short articles is based on extensive research that has been undertaken over many years. The objective of bringing them together is to draw attention to some of their most salient results, and – by uniting them in a single issue – to contribute to overcoming the usual separation of the sociology of art, literature, cinema and scholarship. Well-grounded comparisons on transnationalism in different cultural and intellectual fields provoke a host of questions pertaining both to the observation of empirical patterns and to theoretical issues about how to conceive of transnational structures and their dynamics. Aside from stimulating such comparisons and thus advancing research in these areas, the articles also raise issues about how to conceive of transnational and global fields more generally and about pursuing research on these topics.
On international and comparative research we have included a short and largely unknown text by Pierre Bourdieu. It originally appeared in French in 1992, but was published merely in a confidential research report, and barely circulated beyond the scholars who were involved in the workshop meetings from which it originated.
The issue, furthermore, contains rubrics. The volume Impérialismes is reviewed in the “recent books” sections, which also provides a list of such publications. The “events” section features short notes about two recent manifestations, one held in Bordeaux and the other one in Paris. Finally, a new section introduces research groups using Pierre Bourdieu’s tools, one in Italy and the other one in an endangered Argentina.
The editorial team
Special edition
Pierre Bourdieu
Larissa Buchholz
Carolina Pulici & Jéssica Ronconi
Recent books
Pierre Bourdieu’s Posthumous Volume on International Phenomena
Book review · Julien Duval
Inspired by / About Pierre Bourdieu’s Work
2024
Boschetti, A. (2024) Benedetto Croce. Dominio simbolico et storia intellettuale [Benedetto Croce. Symbolic Domination and Intellectual History]. Quodlibet: Roma.
Charle, C. (2024) L’Europe des intellectuels. Figures et configurations, XIXe-XXe siècles. [The Europe of Intellectuals. Figures and Configurations, 19th-20th centuries]. Paris: CNRS Editions.
Collard, V. (2024) Pierre Bourdieu. Genèse d’un sociologue. [Pierre Bourdieu. Genesis of a Sociologist]. Paris: CNRS Editions.
Dubois, V. (2024) Bringing Bourdieu’s Theory of Fields to Critical Policy Analysis. Camberley: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Fourcade, M., Healy, K. (2024) The Ordinal Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Kastner, J. (2024) Klassifikation und Kampf. Zur Aktualität der Kultursoziologie Pierre Bourdieus. Mit einem Vorwort Franz Schultheis [Classification and Struggle. On the Topicality of Pierre Bourdieu’s Cultural Sociology. With a Foreword by Franz Schultheis]. Vienna: Turia+Kant.
Larregue, J. (2024) Hereditary. The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Lion, G. (2024) Vivre au camping. Un mal-logement des classes populaires [Living at the Campsite. Poor Housing of the Working Class]. Paris: Le Seuil.
Pinto, L. (2024) Le marché des idées. Les sciences humaines et leurs lecteurs [The Marketplace of Ideas. The Humanities and Their Readers]. Vulaines-sur-Seine: Éditions du Croquant.
Pitzalis, M., Borghini, A., Pinna, G., Gremigni, E. (eds.) (2024) Bourdieu in Italia. Esperienze di una sociologia generativa [Bourdieu in Italy. Experiences of a Generative Sociology]. Pisa: Pisa University Press.
Sapiro, G. (2024) Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur mondial ? Le champ littéraire transnational [What is a Global Author? The Transnational Literary Field]. Paris: EHESS/Gallimard/Le Seuil.
Swartz, D. L. (2024) The Academic Trumpists. Radicals Against Liberal Diversity. London: Routledge.
Schultheis, F. (2024) Soziologische Erzählkunst. Ein Werkstattbesuch bei Pierre Bourdieus „Das Elend der Welt“ [Sociological Narrative Art. A Workshop Visit to Pierre Bourdieu’s “The Weight of the world”]. Wiesbaden: Springer.
Wacquant, L. (2024) Jim Crow. Le terrorisme de caste en Amérique [Jim Crow. Caste Terrorism in America]. Paris: Raisons d’Agir.
Editions / Translations of Pierre Bourdieu’s Work
2024
Bourdieu, P. (2024) Antropología económica. Curso en el Collège de France (1992-1993). México: Fondo de cultura economica. Translated to Spanish by Pons, H.
Bourdieu, P. (2024) Curso de sociologia general 3 y 4, El mundo social como objeto de luchas. Collège de France, 1984-1985 y 1985-1986. Madrid: Siglo XXI. Translated to Spanish by Pons, H.
Bourdieu, P. (2024) El interés detrás del desinterés. El estado moderno, las pujas de poder y la definición del bien común. Cursos en el Collège de France, 1987-1989. Madrid: Siglo XXI. Translated to Spanish by Polo, M.
Bourdieu, P. (2024) Images d’Algérie. Une affinité elective [Pierre Bourdieu. Picturing Algeria]. Arles/Graz, Actes Sud/Camera Austria, 2024. Edited by Frisinghelli, C. and Schultheis, F.
Bourdieu, P. (2024) Retorno à reflexividade. São Paulo: Editora Unesp. Translated to Portuguese by Kawaucha, T.
Bourdieu, P. (2024) Return to Reflexivity. Cambridge: Polity. Translated to English by Collier, P.
Bourdieu, P. (2024) Sociologie et démocratie [Sociology and Democracy]. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon. Edited by Quijoux, M. and Siméant-Germanos, J.
Bourdieu, P. (2024) Sulla riflessività. Rome: Meltemi. Translated to Italian by Ienna, G., Lombardo, C., Sabetta, L. and Santoro, M.
Bourdieu, P. (2024) The Interest in Disinterestedness: Lectures at the College de France 1987-1989. Cambridge: Polity. Translated to English by Collier, P.
Bourdieu, P. (2024) 学术人：一场学术界的权力游戏，深入学术界的隐秘角落；透视福柯、德里达、拉康等著名法国哲学家的“发迹史” [Homo Academicus, Chinese Paperback Edition].
Bourdieu, P., Passeron, J-C. (2024) 상속자들. 학생과 문화 [The Inheritors. French Students and Their Relation to Culture]. Seoul: Humanitas Books. Translated to Korean by Lee, S-G.
Events
Hegemony and Fields. Working with the Concepts of Gramsci and Bourdieu
Centre Émile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, 16–17.01.2025
Comparative Perspectives on Transnational Fields of Cultural Production
CESSP, March 11, 2025
Research groups
Also in this issue
Denis Baranger is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Argentina
Fernanda Beigel is Director of Research at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Professor of Sociology at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
Anna Boschetti is former Professor at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy
Larissa Buchholz is Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northwestern University, United States of America
Julien Duval is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Vera Guseynova is PhD Student in Sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France and Centre Français de Recherche en Sciences Sociales, Czech Republic
Alicia Gutiérrez is Professor of Sociology at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Johan Heilbron is Director of Research Emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Guest Professor of Sociology at Université de Liège, France and Belgium
Ian Merkel is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at University of Groningen, Netherlands
Carolina Pulici is Professor of Sociology at Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
Matteo Puoti is PhD Student in Sociology at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Antoine Roger is Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Bordeaux, France
Jéssica Ronconi is PhD Student in Sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Universidade Federal de São Paulo, France and Brazil
Gisèle Sapiro is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Professor of Sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni is Professor of Art History and Sociology at Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
Eunyoung Won is PhD Student in Sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France