D Robbins
Biographic Data
| ID | 10813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Robbins |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Robbins |
| SIGNATURE | ROBBINS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2050-7226 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Response to Reviews
Pierre Bourdieu: E-Special Issue Introduction
This e-special issue explores the reception of Bourdieu's work in one journal, Theory, Culture & Society, which commenced at about the same time that Bourdieu was beginning to acquire an international reputation. It offers a case-study of the English representation of Bourdieu's work through almost 40 years and focuses on the role of the journal in carrying Bourdieu's work across cultural boundaries. It introduces the scope of that work but, prim…
The Bourdieu paradigm: The origins and evolution of an intellectual social project
A Commentary on Althusser's 1963 Presentation of Bourdieu and Passeron
The commentary provides contextual information about the seminar which Bourdieu and Passeron gave in the École Normale Supérieure on 6 December 1963. It appears that the intended series of seminars was curtailed, perhaps because the initial seminar of 6 December exposed the extent to which Althusser was formally managing the intentions of his guest speakers and resisting the implications of their ongoing research on students and their studies. Th…
Why there is no poststructuralism in France: The making of an intellectual generation
in which I argued that the inspiration for Pierre Bourdieu's post-structuralist social science lay in his absorption of the legacy of Husserl's phenomenology.My concern increased when I found that Angermuller's analysis is heavily dependent on Bourdieu's conceptual framework.Indeed, the book consists of five chapters, the first four of which were originally published in French (in 2013) as Le champ de la Théorie: Essor et déclin du structuralisme…
Social Science and Populism
La publication de La Reproduction en 1970 est l'aboutissement de plus de cinq ans d'approfondissement d'une recherche entreprise au sein du Centre de sociologie europeenne, au debut des annees 1960, par une equipe de chercheur·e·s dirigee par Pierre Bourdieu et Jean-Claude Passeron, et qui avait deja abouti a la publication des Heritiers en 1964. Separement ou ensemble, Bourdieu et Passeron ont ecrit des articles qui anticipaient les evenements d…
The Business and Management of Ocean Cruises
Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière on art/aesthetics and politics: The Origins of Disagreement, 1963-1985
Rancière published two substantial criticisms of the work of Bourdieu in the early 1980s. It is possible that these were provoked by his sense that he needed to oppose what he considered to be the sociological reduction of aesthetic taste offered by Bourdieu in Distinction (Bourdieu 1986 [1979]) at precisely the moment when he (Rancière) was beginning to articulate his commitment to the potential of aesthetic expression as a mode of political res…
Religion and cultural politics: Islam and Bourdieu
This text follows closely a paper given in May 2007 to the third seminar, held at University College London, of an ESRC seminar series co-organized by the author, Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and Azzedine Haddour (University College London) entitled 'Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria: Testimonies of Uprooting'. The paper offers a preliminary discussion of Bourdieu's analysis of Islam in his first book, Sociologie de l'Algérie …
Bourdieu and Literature
J.R.W. Speller, Cambridge, Open Book Publishers, 2011, 210 pp, £14.95, 978 19069 24423 I came to the work of Pierre Bourdieu well after I had completed my undergraduate degree in English Literature
Slow travel: Issues for tourism and climate change
This paper analyses the eclectic evolution of slow travel, examines key features and interpretations, and develops a slow travel framework as an alternative way of conceptualising holidays in the future. The paper focuses on slow travel's potential to respond to the challenges of climatic change: travel currently accounts for 50–97.5% of the overall emissions impact of most tourism trips. In-depth interviews with self-identified slow travellers i…
From Solidarity to Social Inclusion: The Political Transformations of Durkheimianism
The article begins with Pierre Rosanvallon's account of the mutations of 'Jacobin ideology' and the function of sociology in criticising this in France at the end of the nineteenth century. I suggest it was not Durkheim's intention simply to criticise a 'Jacobin' form of political ideology. Rather, it was to construct an affinity between sociological explanation and social facts, such that sociological discourse would appropriate the sphere of th…
John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte: A trans-cultural comparative epistemology of the social sciences
The paper begins by outlining the approaches to the development of a philosophy of social science in the work of Bourdieu, Passeron, and Habermas. The discussion of the positions of Comte and Mill which follows is an historical case-study of the tensions between competing stances adopted in the 1960s - between the tendency to formulate a logic of the social sciences and the tendency to ground a philosophy of social science in ontology or in the s…
Holiday travel discourses and climate change
Sociological Analysis and Socio-Political Change: Juxtaposing Elements of the Work of Bourdieu, Passeron and Lyotard
The paper considers the relationship between sociological analysis and political action by subjecting the work of Bourdieu to scrutiny, especially in relation to the work of some of his contemporaries - Raymond Aron, Jean-Claude Passeron, and Jean-François Lyotard. The first part of the discussion focuses on educational research carried out collaboratively by Bourdieu and Passeron in the 1960s and considers the shared assumptions that underpin th…
After the Ball Is Over: Bourdieu and the Crisis of Peasant Society
This review article is stimulated by the publication by Polity Press in 2008 of a translation of Bourdieu’s Le Bal des célibataires, which had been published by Editions du Seuil in the year of his death — 2002. Le Bal des célibataires assembled three articles about his native Béarn which Bourdieu had written at roughly ten-year intervals, starting in 1962. Given that Le Bal des célibataires formally constitutes a new publication in that it juxta…
Representation of transport
Gazing at the Colonial Gaze: Photographic Observation and Observations on Photography Based on a Comparison between Aspects of the Work of Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron
The paper was provoked by viewing various selections of the photos taken by Bourdieu in Algeria in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part considers three stages in the production and consumption of Bourdieu's photos. The possibility that the third of these stages - the gallery display of Bourdieu's photos in the present - might be a betrayal of the sociology of photography and of art galleries that Bou…
Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
Representations of tourism transport problems in a rural destination
Using the car in a fragile rural tourist destination: A social representations perspective
Special Issue on Transport at Tourist Destinations
The Significance of Socio-genetic Understanding: Response to Fowler
The following article is a published response to a review of On Bourdieu, Education and Society (Fowler, B (2006) 'Clashing Interpretations of Bourdieu's Theory of Practice: Derek Robbins, On Bourdieu, Education and Society. Oxford: Bardwell Press, 2006. ISBN 0_9548_6836_6' Journal of Classical Sociology 2007; 7 (3) 367) by Derek Robbins, the original author. In this response Robbins criticises the tendency amongst social scientists to advocate t…
Sociology as Reflexive Science: On Bourdieu's Project
The article focuses on the fact that the consequence of Bourdieu's death is that we now have to respond specifically to the texts that he produced between 1958 and 2002, rather than to the impact of writing and political action in combination, which was his goal during his life. The article raises general questions about the status of social texts in relation to the practices of philosophy and social scientific enquiry to which Bourdieu must have…
Classification in French Social Theory
The article explores the ways in which the French intellectual tradition in the modern period can be characterized as a continuous oscillation between the rationalist a priorism of the Cartesian tradition and the biological experientialism of Rousseauism
The origins, early development and status of Bourdieu's concept of 'cultural capital
The paper examines the context of the first introduction of the concept of 'cultural capital' in the sociology of education analyses undertaken in the early 1960s and published by Bourdieu in collaboration with Jean-Claude Passeron in 'Les étudiants et leurs études' (1964a) and Les Héritiers (1964b). It first considers the cultural contexts within which Bourdieu's thinking about culture originated - both in relation to his social origins and in r…
The transcultural transferability of Bourdieu's sociology of education
As early as 1970, M. S. Archer argued that Bourdieu's sociology of education was the product of the particular conditions of the French educational system within which it was formulated. The same argument was subsequently advanced more generally by Richard Jenkins, who insisted that Bourdieu's sociology of culture, particularly the analysis contained in La Distinction/Distinction (Bourdieu, 1979 Bourdieu P 1979 La distinction. Critique sociale du…
The practical importance of Bourdieu's analyses of higher education
The paper issues a warning about interpreting any one strand of Bourdieu's work in isolation from the other strands but, nevertheless, attempts to effect a functional disaggregation in order to explore the practical implications for contemporary higher education of the educational research undertaken by Bourdieu and his collaborators over the last 30 years. The paper proceeds to represent the main features of that research-concentrating on the th…
Sociology as Reflexive Science: On Bourdieu's Project
The article focuses on the fact that the consequence of Bourdieu's death is that we now have to respond specifically to the texts that he produced between 1958 and 2002, rather than to the impact of writing and political action in combination, which was his goal during his life. The article raises general questions about the status of social texts in relation to the practices of philosophy and social scientific enquiry to which Bourdieu must have…
Holiday travel discourses and climate change
Sociology and Philosophy in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu, 1965-75
The paper first offers a brief account of the competition between the Durkheimian sociological tradition and German philosophy in the period in which Bourdieu was a student at the École Normale Supérieure. It indicates the intellectual influences of the early years that Bourdieu subsequently acknowledged and then examines his use of the work of Weber in his first book, Sociologie de l'Algérie (1958). The paper then focuses on the development of B…
Representations of tourism transport problems in a rural destination
Using the car in a fragile rural tourist destination: A social representations perspective
The Work of Pierre Bourdieu: Recognising Society
Representation of transport
The responsibility of the ethnographer: An introduction to Pierre Bourdieu on 'Colonialism and ethnography
Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market
Gazing at the Colonial Gaze: Photographic Observation and Observations on Photography Based on a Comparison between Aspects of the Work of Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron
The paper was provoked by viewing various selections of the photos taken by Bourdieu in Algeria in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part considers three stages in the production and consumption of Bourdieu's photos. The possibility that the third of these stages - the gallery display of Bourdieu's photos in the present - might be a betrayal of the sociology of photography and of art galleries that Bou…
Durkheim Through the Eyes of Bourdieu
The title rightly suggests that I shall be attempting to give a view of Bourdieu's perception of Durkheim. I shall not try to judge whether Bourdieu's perception of Durkheim was correct, nor shall I seek to compare the validity of the positions adopted by Durkheim and Bourdieu. Instead, I shall concentrate on the general context of Bourdieu's view of Durkheim and focus on Bourdieu's references to Durkheim in two important texts - the first is an …
Religion and cultural politics: Islam and Bourdieu
This text follows closely a paper given in May 2007 to the third seminar, held at University College London, of an ESRC seminar series co-organized by the author, Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and Azzedine Haddour (University College London) entitled 'Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria: Testimonies of Uprooting'. The paper offers a preliminary discussion of Bourdieu's analysis of Islam in his first book, Sociologie de l'Algérie …
The Significance of Socio-genetic Understanding: Response to Fowler
The following article is a published response to a review of On Bourdieu, Education and Society (Fowler, B (2006) 'Clashing Interpretations of Bourdieu's Theory of Practice: Derek Robbins, On Bourdieu, Education and Society. Oxford: Bardwell Press, 2006. ISBN 0_9548_6836_6' Journal of Classical Sociology 2007; 7 (3) 367) by Derek Robbins, the original author. In this response Robbins criticises the tendency amongst social scientists to advocate t…
Pierre Bourdieu: E-Special Issue Introduction
This e-special issue explores the reception of Bourdieu's work in one journal, Theory, Culture & Society, which commenced at about the same time that Bourdieu was beginning to acquire an international reputation. It offers a case-study of the English representation of Bourdieu's work through almost 40 years and focuses on the role of the journal in carrying Bourdieu's work across cultural boundaries. It introduces the scope of that work but, prim…
A Commentary on Althusser's 1963 Presentation of Bourdieu and Passeron
The commentary provides contextual information about the seminar which Bourdieu and Passeron gave in the École Normale Supérieure on 6 December 1963. It appears that the intended series of seminars was curtailed, perhaps because the initial seminar of 6 December exposed the extent to which Althusser was formally managing the intentions of his guest speakers and resisting the implications of their ongoing research on students and their studies. Th…
Why there is no poststructuralism in France: The making of an intellectual generation
in which I argued that the inspiration for Pierre Bourdieu's post-structuralist social science lay in his absorption of the legacy of Husserl's phenomenology.My concern increased when I found that Angermuller's analysis is heavily dependent on Bourdieu's conceptual framework.Indeed, the book consists of five chapters, the first four of which were originally published in French (in 2013) as Le champ de la Théorie: Essor et déclin du structuralisme…
Social Science and Populism
La publication de La Reproduction en 1970 est l'aboutissement de plus de cinq ans d'approfondissement d'une recherche entreprise au sein du Centre de sociologie europeenne, au debut des annees 1960, par une equipe de chercheur·e·s dirigee par Pierre Bourdieu et Jean-Claude Passeron, et qui avait deja abouti a la publication des Heritiers en 1964. Separement ou ensemble, Bourdieu et Passeron ont ecrit des articles qui anticipaient les evenements d…
Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière on art/aesthetics and politics: The Origins of Disagreement, 1963-1985
Rancière published two substantial criticisms of the work of Bourdieu in the early 1980s. It is possible that these were provoked by his sense that he needed to oppose what he considered to be the sociological reduction of aesthetic taste offered by Bourdieu in Distinction (Bourdieu 1986 [1979]) at precisely the moment when he (Rancière) was beginning to articulate his commitment to the potential of aesthetic expression as a mode of political res…
From Solidarity to Social Inclusion: The Political Transformations of Durkheimianism
The article begins with Pierre Rosanvallon's account of the mutations of 'Jacobin ideology' and the function of sociology in criticising this in France at the end of the nineteenth century. I suggest it was not Durkheim's intention simply to criticise a 'Jacobin' form of political ideology. Rather, it was to construct an affinity between sociological explanation and social facts, such that sociological discourse would appropriate the sphere of th…
John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte: A trans-cultural comparative epistemology of the social sciences
The paper begins by outlining the approaches to the development of a philosophy of social science in the work of Bourdieu, Passeron, and Habermas. The discussion of the positions of Comte and Mill which follows is an historical case-study of the tensions between competing stances adopted in the 1960s - between the tendency to formulate a logic of the social sciences and the tendency to ground a philosophy of social science in ontology or in the s…
Special Issue on Transport at Tourist Destinations
Classification in French Social Theory
The article explores the ways in which the French intellectual tradition in the modern period can be characterized as a continuous oscillation between the rationalist a priorism of the Cartesian tradition and the biological experientialism of Rousseauism
The committee on youth, culture, education, information and sport of the European parliament
Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market
The experience of express coach deregulation in Great Britain
Bourdieu in England, 1964–1977
The Work of Pierre Bourdieu: Recognising Society
The practical importance of Bourdieu's analyses of higher education
The paper issues a warning about interpreting any one strand of Bourdieu's work in isolation from the other strands but, nevertheless, attempts to effect a functional disaggregation in order to explore the practical implications for contemporary higher education of the educational research undertaken by Bourdieu and his collaborators over the last 30 years. The paper proceeds to represent the main features of that research-concentrating on the th…
The Shield of Pascal
Bourdieu and Culture
Bourdieu and Culture is an accessible and balanced introduction to Bourdieu's work, placing him in an appropriate intellectual and historical context. Robbins argues that Bourdieu is best understood as a cultural analyst
The English Intellectual Field in the 1790s and the Creative Project of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - An Application of Bourdieu's Cultural Analysis
Pierre Bourdieu, 1930—2002
En parcourant rapidement son oeuvre, cet article tente notamment de montrer comment Pierre Bourdieu a reussi a concilier une exigence permanente de redefinition de l'autonomie du champ intellectuel avec certaines formes d'engagement
Sociology and Philosophy in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu, 1965-75
The paper first offers a brief account of the competition between the Durkheimian sociological tradition and German philosophy in the period in which Bourdieu was a student at the École Normale Supérieure. It indicates the intellectual influences of the early years that Bourdieu subsequently acknowledged and then examines his use of the work of Weber in his first book, Sociologie de l'Algérie (1958). The paper then focuses on the development of B…
Recent Publications
Texts by Emile Durkheim 2003 L’évaluation en comité. Textes et rapports de souscription au Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques 1903-1917, édités et présentés par Stéphane Baciocchi et Jennifer Mergy, Oxford and New York: Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books. (Its dating-enumeration according to Lukes is 2003a.)
Durkheim Through the Eyes of Bourdieu
The title rightly suggests that I shall be attempting to give a view of Bourdieu's perception of Durkheim. I shall not try to judge whether Bourdieu's perception of Durkheim was correct, nor shall I seek to compare the validity of the positions adopted by Durkheim and Bourdieu. Instead, I shall concentrate on the general context of Bourdieu's view of Durkheim and focus on Bourdieu's references to Durkheim in two important texts - the first is an …
Postscript: On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason' - Some Contextual Notes
Cet article replace l'article critique de Pierre Bourdieu et Loic Wacquant Sur les ruses de la raison imperialiste dans une perspective diachronique d'evolution de la pensee bourdieusienne et dans une perspective synchronique de contexte editorial du numero de la revue Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales dans lequel cet article est paru en 1998
The responsibility of the ethnographer: An introduction to Pierre Bourdieu on 'Colonialism and ethnography
Recent Publications
The transcultural transferability of Bourdieu's sociology of education
As early as 1970, M. S. Archer argued that Bourdieu's sociology of education was the product of the particular conditions of the French educational system within which it was formulated. The same argument was subsequently advanced more generally by Richard Jenkins, who insisted that Bourdieu's sociology of culture, particularly the analysis contained in La Distinction/Distinction (Bourdieu, 1979 Bourdieu P 1979 La distinction. Critique sociale du…
The origins, early development and status of Bourdieu's concept of 'cultural capital
The paper examines the context of the first introduction of the concept of 'cultural capital' in the sociology of education analyses undertaken in the early 1960s and published by Bourdieu in collaboration with Jean-Claude Passeron in 'Les étudiants et leurs études' (1964a) and Les Héritiers (1964b). It first considers the cultural contexts within which Bourdieu's thinking about culture originated - both in relation to his social origins and in r…
Classification in French Social Theory
The article explores the ways in which the French intellectual tradition in the modern period can be characterized as a continuous oscillation between the rationalist a priorism of the Cartesian tradition and the biological experientialism of Rousseauism
Using the car in a fragile rural tourist destination: A social representations perspective
Special Issue on Transport at Tourist Destinations
The Significance of Socio-genetic Understanding: Response to Fowler
The following article is a published response to a review of On Bourdieu, Education and Society (Fowler, B (2006) 'Clashing Interpretations of Bourdieu's Theory of Practice: Derek Robbins, On Bourdieu, Education and Society. Oxford: Bardwell Press, 2006. ISBN 0_9548_6836_6' Journal of Classical Sociology 2007; 7 (3) 367) by Derek Robbins, the original author. In this response Robbins criticises the tendency amongst social scientists to advocate t…
Sociology as Reflexive Science: On Bourdieu's Project
The article focuses on the fact that the consequence of Bourdieu's death is that we now have to respond specifically to the texts that he produced between 1958 and 2002, rather than to the impact of writing and political action in combination, which was his goal during his life. The article raises general questions about the status of social texts in relation to the practices of philosophy and social scientific enquiry to which Bourdieu must have…
Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
Representations of tourism transport problems in a rural destination
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