Böcker av Tony Schirato

Understanding Bourdieu offers a comprehensive introduction to Bourdieu's work. It is essential reading for anyone tackling his ideas for the first time.

An engaging guide to the skills needed to analyse images of all kinds and a lucid introduction to the emerging field of visual culture. Author Webb from University of Canberra, ACT.

Throughout his career, French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu sought to interrogate what he described as the ''social unconscious'', the means by which power is held and transmitted across generations. Bourdieu''s work has been hugely influential in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities for decades, yet Schirato and Roberts argue that few scholars are using his work to its full potential.Bourdieu''s work is so wide-ranging that commentary tends to focus on specific theoretical concepts he developed or his books on particular fields of inquiry. However he continued to develop these concepts in his work across his whole career, and much of the richness of his thinking is lost if this isn''t taken into account. Drawing on recently released lectures, Schirato and Roberts offer a systematic account of Bourdieu''s full body of work, from his early research in Algiers to his last lectures in Paris. They show how Bourdieu continued to develop his concepts of habitus, field, capital, power and socio-cultural reproduction well into his later years. They also offer a nuanced reading of Bourdieu''s thinking about education, class, language, knowledge and culture beyond the individual books Bourdieu published on these topics.This critical introduction to Bourdieu is essential reading for all Bourdieu scholars, and for researchers and thinkers using Bourdieu''s work in their own social and cultural analysis.''A terrific book, which sets out a comprehensive overview of Bourdieu''s oeuvre in a way that no other text I know has done'' - Professor John Frow, University of Sydney

Understanding Judith Butler is not an easy task, but this perfectly judged exploration of all Butler's works succeeds where many competing texts fail.

Traces and analyzes the development of the modern field of sport from its ancient and medieval precursors, through to its inception in the mid-19th century as a set of activities designed to instill character and discipline in students in exclusive British public schools, up to its transformation into a global institution and popular spectacle.

Understanding Globalization provides a basic easy-to-read introduction to the discourses, practices and technologies that have been grouped together under the term.

From Saussure to Bourdieu, from Freud to Fouclault, this book outlines a range of theoretical approaches to the study of communication and culture. It focuses on three 'primary' systems of communication: spoken, written and visual.

This book is the perfect introduction to a thinker many students can find challenging. Foucault is the last great intellectual in the social sciences - people need to understand him.