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Taking Bourdieu to the Shantytown
Author(s) -
Auyero Javier
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of urban and regional research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1468-2427
pISSN - 0309-1317
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2427.12851
Subject(s) - habitus , sociology , work (physics) , front (military) , gender studies , social science , geography , cultural capital , mechanical engineering , meteorology , engineering
This essay extends Bourdieu's work on habitat–habitus and symbolic domination to the study of urban marginality. A full account of urban relegation should pay systematic attention to the environmental hazards to which the dispossessed are routinely exposed. Social science accounts of how domination works at the urban margins should place poor people's experience of time (and, particularly, of waiting) at their front and center.