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Symbolic struggles over solidarity in times of crisis: trade unions, civil society actors and the political far right in Austria [PDF]

European Societies: The Official Journal of the European Sociological Association, 2019
As a consequence of the recent financial and economic crisis, social cohesion and integration are in jeopardy all over Europe. In this context, scholars also speak of decreasing solidarity, which is defined as a normative obligation to help each other
Altreiter, Carina, Flecker, Jörg, Hofmann, Julia, Schindler, Saskja, Simsa, Ruth   +4 more
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Legitimating taste in cultural fields: Generational classifications and symbolic struggles in representations of ‘natural’ wine

Journal of Consumer Culture, 2023
This article addresses the legitimation of taste in cultural fields by examining the role of generational dynamics in the field of fine wine. In the last decade, ‘natural’ wine has become an increasingly influential category in the fine wine field.
E. le Grand
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Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice

Journal of Peasant Studies, 2022
Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist imaginaries of ordering ‘unruly waters and humans’ have become cornerstones of hydraulic-bureaucratic and capitalist development.
R. Boelens, A. Escobar, K. Bakker, Lena Hommes, E. Swyngedouw, B. Hogenboom, E. Huijbens, S. Jackson, J. Vos, Leila M. Harris, K. Joy, Fabio de Castro, Bibiana Duarte-Abadía, Daniele Tubino de Souza, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, N. Hernández-Mora, J. Martínez-Alier, Denisse Roca-Servat, Tom Perreault, C. Sanchis‐Ibor, Diana Suhardiman, A. Ulloa, A. Wals, Jaime Hoogesteger, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas, Tatiana Roa-Avendaño, G. Veldwisch, P. Woodhouse, K. Wantzen   +28 more
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Professional boundary struggles in the context of healthcare change: the relational and symbolic constitution of nursing ethos in the space of possible professionalisation.

Sociology of Health and Illness, 2020
The paper draws on Bourdieu's conceptualisation of the symbolic order and his little used concept of ethos in order to gain novel understandings of boundary struggles between nursing and medicine as well as internally in nursing.
Jette Ernst
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Mobilising resilience to symbolic violence with Chinese international research students in Australia: a Bourdieusian perspective

Higher Education Research & Development, 2023
Psychological studies on international research students’ resilience to mental distress have attracted much scholarly attention. Yet, sociological inquiries into resilience to ‘invisible’ pressures such as power imbalances remain limited.
Congcong Xing, G. Mu, Deborah Henderson
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The Polish Parliament and the making of politics through abortion : nation, gender and democracy in the 1996 Liberalization Amendment Debate [PDF]

, 2009
The collapse of communism across East Central Europe was marked by a renewal of debates around reproduction, with abortion debates surfacing in Romania, Germany and Poland.
Kramer, Anne-Marie Caroline
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Protests as “Events”: The Symbolic Struggles in 2013 Demonstrations in Turkey and Brazil

Revista de Sociologia e Política, 2019
Introduction: The concept of “event” offers a valuable lens to understand the discursive contestations in and around protests. Events create ruptures that disturb the logic of continuity and open up new way of thinking and talking about the past and the ...
R. Mendonça, Selen A. Ercan, Umut Ozguc, S. Reis, P. Simões   +4 more
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Social Closures: Reconfiguration of Professional Work in the Danish State School

Professions and Professionalism, 2022
The interconnectedness between the formation of a professional group and its specific tasks and competencies is at the core of sociological theories of professions.
Marianne Brodersen
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Saving and reproducing the nation: Struggles around right-wing politics of social reproduction, gender and race in austerity Europe [PDF]

, 2018
This article suggests the analytic lens of cultural, social and national reproduction to understand the centrality of gendered and ethnic relations, in particular a focus on family life in contemporary UK.
Ahmed, Albanese, Alexander, Andrews, Balibar, BBC, Berkovitch, Bezanson, Bhabha, Bhambra, Blom, Blum, Bonizzoni, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Cameron, Cantle, Children’s Commissioner, Daily Mail, Doty, Dummett, El-Tayeb, Emejulu, Erel, Erel, Erel, Fortier, Fraser, Gramsci, Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Hage, Home Office, Institute of Race Relations, Jayawerdena, Jensen, Keskinen, Khan, Kirkup, Kofman, Kofman, Kováts, Kraler, Lareau, Luxton, Mayer, McClintock, McDonagh, Mosse, Mulinari, Pető, Phoenix, Price, Rattansi, Reynolds, Scott, Sirriyeh, Smith, Spierings, The Independent, Topping, Turner, Turner, Umut Erel, Vacchelli, Virdee, Wearing, Weaver, Women's Budget Group, Women's Budget Group and Runnymede Trust, Yuval-Davis, Yuval-Davis   +71 more
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The Subject and the Real: Ethical Implications of A. Badiou’s Philosophy

Problemos, 2019
Alain Badiou’s theory of ethics of the subject implies that the individual interpellation of the symbolic plane could be secondary to the truth process, which grounds the formation of the subject.
Kasparas Pocius
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