Understanding Class Politics: Bourdieu with Marx feat. Lisa Mckenzie
Emancipations Podcast
English - September 23, 2023 12:52 - 1 hour - 157 MBPhilosophy Society & Culture News Politics marx philosophy politics psychoanalysis Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What are the best theoretical frameworks for understanding class politics? Marx offers an understanding of class as tied to relations of productive labor and property ownership in capitalist society. The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu offers an understanding of class which goes beyond Marx in many ways, offering a richer and more varied idea of class as a cultural formation that generates a field of power. Can Marx and Bourdieu be reconciled? Can they be combined? We are joined by sociologist Lisa Mckenzie to discuss the best ways to theorize class, the working class, class politics and more.