Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of
Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science. Breaking with
the tendency to reflect on Bourdieu's legacies, it brings established
and emergent scholars together to debate the futures of a specifically
Bourdieusian sociology. Driven by a central leitmotif in Bourdieu’s
oeuvre, namely, that his work not be blindly appropriated but actively
interpreted, contributors to this volume set out to map the potentials
of Bourdieusian inflected social science. While for many social
scientists the empirical and theoretical developments of the
twenty-first century mark a limit point of Bourdieusian social theory,
this collection charts both how and why a Bourdieusian sociology has a
future, which is crucial for the ongoing development and roll out of an
engaged, relevant and critical social science.