From “capital of autochtony” to “international capital”. Conceptualizing the scalar structuring of capitals and social spaces
Ripoll, Fabrice
From “capital of autochtony” to “international capital”. Conceptualizing the scalar structuring of capitals and social spaces - 2023.
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The concept of capital, as reworked by Pierre Bourdieu, has enjoyed great success in recent decades, and this has been accompanied by the invention of many variants. If it is undeniable that this produces a general movement of lexical and semantic inflation, these new variants should not be rejected a priori and deserve to be discussed. This article is one of the components of a new work that focuses on all the proposals that seek to integrate geographical space and, more broadly, the spatial dimension of the social world. It focuses in particular on the case of variants that emphasize the spatial scale of production, use, and recognition of capital: From “capital of autochtony” to “international” or “cosmopolitan” capital. What they have in common is that they underline the necessary geographical contextualization of any social trajectory and position, of any practice inscribed in social relations, and that this contextualization is declined at several possible scales (from local to international). By systematizing these analyses, it invites us to clarify and analyze the scalar structuring of capital and social spaces.
From “capital of autochtony” to “international capital”. Conceptualizing the scalar structuring of capitals and social spaces - 2023.
99
The concept of capital, as reworked by Pierre Bourdieu, has enjoyed great success in recent decades, and this has been accompanied by the invention of many variants. If it is undeniable that this produces a general movement of lexical and semantic inflation, these new variants should not be rejected a priori and deserve to be discussed. This article is one of the components of a new work that focuses on all the proposals that seek to integrate geographical space and, more broadly, the spatial dimension of the social world. It focuses in particular on the case of variants that emphasize the spatial scale of production, use, and recognition of capital: From “capital of autochtony” to “international” or “cosmopolitan” capital. What they have in common is that they underline the necessary geographical contextualization of any social trajectory and position, of any practice inscribed in social relations, and that this contextualization is declined at several possible scales (from local to international). By systematizing these analyses, it invites us to clarify and analyze the scalar structuring of capital and social spaces.
Réseaux sociaux