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Symbolic Power/Symbolic Violence
Symbolic Power/Symbolic Violence
Related concepts: field, capital, doxa, discourse, habitus, power, power/knowledge.
In the work of Pierre Bourdieu, who first formulated these concepts, symbolic power and symbolic violence are used interchangeably. I will suggest here that we can usefully use the two terms to refer ...