Concept Of Symbolic Violence Research Articles

Symbolic violence, social control, and student loan programmes: the subterranean complexes

ABSTRACT Government-backed student loans are not a panacea for educational inequality or social ills. By examining student loans as a means of social control, Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence can provide novel ways to encapsulate debt-response patterns across cultures and geographies. This gentle, invisible violence creeps in via misrecognition, a process that encompasses rationalising indebtedness and attaching latent meaning or emotional weight to student debt. Student debt is, first, internalised as a regular and reliable part of life, whether through income-contingent repayment or traditional mortgage-style programmes. Also present is the gradual internalisation of gratitude, trust, and obligation. Deferment or delinquency is subsequently interpreted as a sign of personal inadequacy. In essence, symbolic violence establishes a missing link between an individual’s subjective experience and institutional structural barriers. It disrupts commonly held assumptions on marketisation, private return, and individual responsibility in top-down neo-liberal discourse, informing student loan policy through a multidimensional lens.

A symbolic violence approach to gender inequality in academia

AbstractFeminist scholars have long recognized the gender‐based challenges that women in academia face relative to men. Although numerous strategies have been designed and implemented to tackle this problem, the attainment of gender equality in academia has proved futile globally. Integrating Acker's notion of the ideal worker with Bourdieu's concepts of symbolic violence and capital, we undertake a qualitative study of how women in African universities navigate the masculinized ideal academic norm, and how their efforts to break free from this symbolic image reproduces and legitimizes gender inequality. Drawing on the narratives of 36 women researchers in Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana, and Zambia, our analysis reveals how the perpetual struggle for power, positions, and resources in academia influences women researchers within these contexts to enact three strategies for legitimacy―(1) ‘Engage the patriarchal order,’ (2) ‘Contest normative femininity,’ and (3) ‘Appropriate normative femininity.’ In contributing to the ongoing efforts to achieve sustainable development goals 5 and 8, we develop a theoretical framework that illuminates the subtle and sophisticated mechanisms that (re)produce, sustain, and legitimize the gendered structures and cultures in academia that serve to disadvantage women. The implications of these findings for theory and practice are outlined.

Stigma power in practice: Exploring the contribution of Bourdieu's theory to stigma, discrimination and health research

Stigma and discrimination are increasingly understood as shaping health, and in turn conceptualised as social processes shaped by power and structural inequities. A challenge to analysis and implementing interventions is developing theory that can integrate analysis of structure, agency and power. One theoretical framework already promoted by prominent scholars as supporting this need is Bourdieu's social practice theory. This paper explores the application to date of Bourdieu's theory on stigma, discrimination and health. The paper describes how existing health literature has used concepts of symbolic violence, fields, capitals and habitus to develop insight into stigma power. The discussion explores how this theoretical framework is though underutilised and there has been little consideration of new programmatic approaches based on this theory. Directions for future research include the need for integrated approaches to analysis, especially using habitus to explore stigma power, and addressing processes of change. Directions for conceptualising interventions address how a mismatch of field and habitus could foster change and then the role for prophets in fostering symbolic revolutions. All these potential directions must in turn be integrated within the vast scholarship on stigma. In conclusion, further application and development of Bourdieu's social practice theory could help address the theoretical challenges facing the field of stigma, discrimination and health research.

Bibliometric Analysis Of Studies Conducted on the Concept of Symbolic Violence

Şiddet, toplumsal alanın hemen her alanında farklı türleriyle karşımıza çıkan bir olgu ve fenomendir. Şiddetin görünmeyen bir formu olarak sembolik şiddet kavramı iletişim bilimleriyle yakından alakalı bir kavramdır. Zira toplumsal alanda gerçekleştirilen her türden sembolik şiddet, bir iletişim süreciyle inşa edilmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, literatürde sembolik şiddet kavramı üzerine gerçekleştirilen çalışmaların aktüel durumu hakkında bütüncül bir bilgi sunmaktır. Çalışmada incelenen makalelerin bibliyometrik analiz yöntemiyle niceliksel veri analizi gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmanın evrenini, Scopus veri tabanındaki sembolik şiddet taramasından elde edilen 1287 makale teşkil etmektedir. Makaleler, VOSviewer programına aktarılarak analiz edilmiştir. Çalışma bulguları ülkelerin ve kurumların ortak yazarlık ağları, çalışmalarda en fazla kullanılan kavramlar, yazarların ve çalışmaların atıf haritaları, ülkelerin ve kurumların üretkenliği ve yazarlarla ülkelerin bibliyografik eşleşmeleri ile yazarların ortak ağ analizleri hakkında bilgi vermektedir. Analiz sonuçlarında, ağ atıfları en yoğun olan, en üretken ülkeler İngiltere (n= 224), Amerika (n= 224) ve Avustralya (n= 108) olarak bulgulanmıştır. Ortak atıf analizinde en fazla bağlantı gücüne sahip olan yazarlar Bourdieu (n= 53272), Foucault (n= 5552) ve Wacquant (n= 5387) gözükmektedir. Sembolik şiddetin ağ atıf haritasında en fazla atıf alan yazarlar; Galtung, Menjivar ve Abrego ve Oakes, Townley ve Cooper iken en üretken yazarlar ise Schubert, Bryan ve Schwarz olarak sıralanmaktadır.

STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN ANGOLA

This article aims to analyse the ongoing structural violence in Angola and outline the theoretical framework that are associated with it. Despite the end of the long civil war and the glimmer of peace, post-Cold War and political parties´ ideologies have deeply dived the country up to now. The MPLA government has used brutality against the opposition and incited physical and symbolic violence against the Bakongo and Ovimbundu ethnic groups. Indeed, the signing of the ceasefire in 2002 after the death of Jonas Savimbi did not bring true reconciliation in Angola. Political motivated crimes, the use of excessive force and brutality, kidnapping, mass killing and human rights abuse are common in Angola. Hence, the following guidingquestion arises: How can structural violence be fought in Angola? The theoretical research was based on Bourdieu's concepts of symbolic violence. Qualitative, bibliographic, documentary and empirical studies, with the collection of secondary data were carried out. The results can be fundamental in the search for solutions to promote reconciliation, tolerance and social cohesion through the peaceful resolution of conflicts for the progress of Angola and the humanity as well.

POSHUMANISMO Y LA DUDA ANTROPOFÁGICA: AMBIGÜEDAD, BIOPOLÍTICA Y ANIMISMO EN “SEGUNDO” DE ANA GARCÍA BERGUA

This essay proposes a reading of the story “Segundo” by Ana García Bergua, centred on the conundrum of deciding whether the protagonists are animals or humans. To this end, we collect ambiguous data concerning space, characters, and the rules they live by, and discuss hypotheses about their identity, opting for a dual reading of the text: a biopolitical one, based on the works by Gabriel Giorgi and focused on the question of the body, and an animist one, based on Viveiros de Castro’s “cannibal metaphysics” and the spiritual connection between species. We emphasize a questioning of the human/animal opposition using posthumanist and animal studies theories (Wolfe), as well as unnatural narratology (Alber) and the concept of symbolic violence (Bourdieu). The ambivalence of the characters and the problem of cannibalism are the key elements that disrupt our traditional conception of the subject. Moreover, anthropophagy does not disappear even if the protagonists are interpreted as animals.

Mutual Flourishing?

Abstract This article explores the experiences of women priests in the Church of England through the lens of Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence. Comparing acts of symbolic violence perpetrated against women in the priesthood with the categories of domestic abuse set out in the Duluth Wheel of Power model, I highlight how institutional discourses in the Church and relational interactions can hold hidden abuses based on how gender is constructed at the symbolic level. My intention is to show that the Church of England’s split structure, known as the two integrities, is a manifestation of religious discourse that frames women as differently human and that this fundamental view of gender perpetuates masculine domination and violence against women, often in unseen ways. My argument concludes with a call to better understand the nature of gendered symbolic violence and how religious institutions provide justification for and legitimisation of such violence.

“Symbolic violence” and Dalit feminism: possibilities emerging from a Dalit feminist standpoint reading of Bourdieu

ABSTRACT In this article, I work with feminist standpoint theory to rethink Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of “symbolic violence” and “habitus.” When read through feminist standpoint theory, the concept of symbolic violence may provide a missing link between subjective experiences and invisibilized forms of structural violence, and, I argue, can connect the structural and the immediate to form a powerful discursive methodological tool. This tool can help the broader women’s movement to realign its strategies to focus on the operational forces behind violence. Bourdieu envisioned gender equality as a near impossibility, and masculine domination as the status quo for the foreseeable future. However, the achievements of the Dalit women’s movement in India provide ample evidence that marginalized people can bring about sustainable and long-term political and social change. Shifts in the habitus of gender have indeed resulted in changes in the fields of caste and politics. Thus, this article explains how Bourdieu’s concepts, while insufficient on their own, can be reconfigured to assist in emancipatory feminist projects.

Modern slavery in the criminal family firm: misrecognition and symbolic violence in recruitment and retention practices

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of recruitment and retention practices in the criminal family firm and to provide theoretical explanation for the coercive nature of such practices.Design/methodology/approachThe case study methodology uses 18 semi-structured interviews, court transcripts and press reports to investigate a landmark case of modern slavery in the UK.FindingsThe findings tentatively suggest that the trusting relationships typical of the legitimate family firm employers are replicated in a criminal business.Research limitations/implicationsThe theoretical implications of the paper are that Bourdieu's concepts of symbolic violence and misrecognition can be used to explain the process of worker exploitation in the family firm. Such psychological tools of domination maintain power in a situation of forced labour and blur the boundaries between employer/offender and worker/victim. From the perspective of understanding forced labour, Bourdieu's concept of misrecognition provides a theoretical framework for understanding the “stickiness” of exploitative workplace practices.Practical implicationsThe article suggests a non-economic explanation of why individuals choose to remain in poorly paid and exploitative labour, which will be of use to regulatory and enforcement bodies, seeking to understand the psychological and structural drivers of forced labour.Originality/valueDespite press interest in modern slavery in family firms, such cases have been rarely analysed in family firm literature. The paper contributes to the limited explorations of criminality in family firm businesses.

The individual and the social in Annie Ernaux's autobiographical writing

This article examines the ideological and aesthetic peculiarities of autobiographical writing in “La Place” by Annie Ernaux, a well-known contemporary French writer. We argue that Annie Ernaux 's “flat writing” is close to a sociological or ethnographic study and nearly devoid of any autobiographical subjectivity. Autobiographical writing is approached through the concept of symbolic violence, borrowed from the sociologist P. Bourdieu. Ernaux indeed replaces event history, a feature of autobiography, by the study of socio-historical causes of “class distancing” between father and daughter. The analysis of key concepts of the Ernaux's poetics makes it possible, on the one hand, to grasp the appearance of social and cultural alienation and, on the other hand, to achieve a social criticism of reality.

Learning From the Past and Working in the Present to Create an Antiracist Future for Academic Medicine.

Learning From the Past and Working in the Present to Create an Antiracist Future for Academic Medicine.

Gender Inequality and Symbolic Violence in Women’s Access to Family Land in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania

We set out to unveil gender inequality with respect to women’s access to family land following the surge in tree-planting in selected villages in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Specifically, the study describes land-transaction procedures at the household level and shows how the lack of women’s involvement in such land transactions affect their access to and control over family lands. Gender inequality is portrayed in a variety of social and economic activities, with women being deprived of access to, control over, and ownership of land. Although the current land laws address gender inequalities pertaining to women’s access to, ownership of, and control over land, the impact of such reforms has been minimal. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence, we reveal how women suffer symbolic violence through traditional practices of land management and administration. Societies in the studied villages are strongly patriarchal, with men being dominant and women subordinate. In such a patriarchal system, women’s empowerment is urgent. Women require knowledge and awareness of the laws and regulations that affirm their rights not only to family lands, but also to participation in decision-making processes regarding family assets. We recommend non-oppressive approaches to natural-resource management. As such, we call for existing authorities at the village and district levels, Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and legal bodies to promote gender equality in land-management practices. We also advocate dialectical communication between women and men in order to reveal and heal practices of symbolic violence, and enhance gender equality in respect of access to land and its control and ownership in villages in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Effective implementation of existing land laws and regulations that address gender inequality and associated violence is unavoidable.

A criminalização do aborto na sociedade brasileira

Neste artigo, discutimos a criminalização do aborto na sociedade brasileira, instigadas pelo documentário Clandestinas. Nele, por meio da interpretação de atrizes, são contadas histórias de mulheres que realizaram aborto por diferentes motivos. Sua produção se deu a partir da compilação dos depoimentos de mulheres de diferentes lugares, raças e classes sociais, as quais contam suas experiências com a prática do aborto, deixando evidente as desigualdades quanto ao tratamento recebido no processo de enfrentamento de um fenômeno comum a todas elas. Nosso propósito é discutir o caráter violento que essa criminalização expressa, recorrendo ao conceito de violência simbólica de Pierre Bourdieu e nos valendo de dados disponibilizados por pesquisadores brasileiros que se debruçaram frente ao esforço de compreender peculiaridades de nossa sociedade em relação a questão do aborto.

Violencia Simbólica: Revisión De Los Estudios Que Acuñan El Concepto En América Latina (2009-2019)

El presente artículo es un estado del arte sobre el concepto de violencia simbólica en el contextoacadémico latinoamericano. El texto abarca la revisión de artículos, libros y tesis que abordan dichoconcepto en el período 2009-2019. Si bien el concepto es introducido por el sociólogo francés PierreBourdieu, a finales del siglo pasado (XX), en el siguiente trabajo no se hará una revisión exhaustiva dela obra de Bourdieu, sino de los autores que han usado el concepto como eje de sus investigacionessobre América Latina. El método utilizado consistió en una revisión documental con el software deanálisis cualitativo ATLAS.ti y luego se hizo un examen más cualitativo y en profundidad de lostextos. Se halló que el concepto se ha desarrollado en los siguientes campos académicos: estudios degénero y feminismo; estudios sociales y políticos, y en análisis educativos y pedagógicos. La mayorutilización del concepto se ubica en el campo de los estudios de género, donde hay una mayorcantidad de publicaciones sobre esta categoría. La cantidad de estudios y la manera en la cual elconcepto se ha instrumentalizado en los últimos diez años, da cuenta de que la obra de Bourdieusigue siendo un objeto propicio para hacer de la sociología un deporte de combate.

Symbolic Violence and Reproduction of Gender Inequality in Turkish Media: Case of New Bride TV Serial

Television has capacity to reach to massive audiences and produce various cultural commodities in a considerable amount, thereby functions as a major agent in the process of socialisation and has necessarily substantial power to construct social order. Despite the development of internet technology, television, is still one of the major free time activities in Turkish society. Gender inequality is currently a challenge in Turkish society and televisions, thus becomes more of an issue. Bourdieu, as one of the most creative, productive and iconoclastic scholars of the twentieth century attempted to explicate how social order and structure is constructed and reproduced with concepts of symbolic violence, capital, habitus. The research analyses New Bride television serial with qualitative content analysis technique to look into how gender inequality is reproduced by wielding symbolic violence. New Bride television serial is the unit of the content analysis. Symbolic violence is the main category and sexual division of labour and space, exclusion from public space, androcentric vision, bodily emotions, love of dominant, ancien regime are the subcategories of the content analysis. The research reveals that New Bride television serial contributes to the reproduction of gender inequality by wielding symbolic violence.

Symbolic Violence in Mata Di Tanah Melus By Okky Madasari

This article explores the symbolic violence experienced by children in their everyday
 lives as represented in an Indonesian contemporary children novel, Mata di Tanah
 Melus (2018) by Okky Madasari. Unlike physical violence where its effect can be clearly
 recognized, the nature of symbolic violence—though equally harmful—is very subtle, so
 the victims may not recognize the violence. The research aims to identify how symbolic
 violence from adult to children is represented—especially in daily life—and how a
 protagonist deals and then negotiates with it. This article applies Pierre Bourdieu’s
 concept of symbolic violence and Maria Nikolajeva’s theory of adult’s aetonormativity.
 Several studies on adults’ symbolic violence against children in Indonesia have been
 carried out in folklores and dystopian novels. This article examines a contemporary
 children’s novel written by Okky Madasari. The novel is one of few Indonesian children’s
 novel that contains the issue of symbolic violence against children within modern and
 traditional worlds. The result of this research indicates that there are many forms of
 symbolic violence from adult to children, one of which is the domination of adults
 who are not aware that children also have their own opinions and needs. Such
 domination silences children and makes them lose their voices. Nevertheless, the
 research revealed that despite adult’s domination, the children characters in the novel
 found their agency and empowerment to negotiate the situation after encountering an
 otherworldly realm and going on their own adventures without the presence of their
 parents.

Symbolic Violence Towards Precarious Worker of E-Commerce Company of Transportation Services

This research is motivated by the lack of research on the symbolic violence that raised the precarious workers as their subjects. Most studies on symbolic violence that occur in organizations are focused on hierarchical organizations, where obviously dominant and dominated positions are already visible. The phenomenon of precarious workers in Indonesia is widely discussed in the various field of academic, especially the field of law that discusses the unavailability of laws governing online transportation business. The absence of such laws, then becomes a chance for online transportation companies to gain profit by abusing the interests of others (in this case, their partners). Precarious workers in the online transportation business are recruited with a partnership agreement, which should place their position equal to the e-commerce transportation company. But in reality, precarious workers are dominated by e-commerce transportation companies. This study aims to determine the symbolic violence received by precarious workers in the online transport business. This study used the concept of symbolic violence from Pierre Bourdieu, where symbolic violence is closely related to doxa, habitus, capital and arena. This research uses the paradigm of critical constructivism and is descriptive qualitative research. This study also used in-depth interviews of 4 informants as the data collection techniques. The results of this study indicate the occurrence of symbolic violence towards precarious worker in the cooperative relations (partnership agreement) with the e-commerce company in the form of bonus gains policy, tariff policy, and punishment policy. This study has identified the doxa, habitus, capital and arena that encourage symbolic violence towards precarious workers. This study also found that there are two types of precariat workers and differing acceptance of symbolic violence. The differences are influenced by factors such as gender and the motive of the precarious workers when they join the e-commerce company.

Transformative and emancipatory literacy to empower

ABSTRACTThis paper draws on sociological and critical educational frames, particularly Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence, in order to contest the dominant model of literacy education that is driven by the premise of a ‘knowledge economy’. Instead it foregrounds the political, social, and economic factors that marginalise learners. Data from two projects: an ethnographic study in a Further Education (FE) College in England and a study of community-based literacy programmes in Scotland, are probed to show how literacy classes can offer spaces to challenge symbolic violence and facilitate learners to reclaim identities of success. These changes are illustrated from the learners’ views of the contrasts between their experiences of school education and literacy programmes that use transformative and emancipatory approaches. Our research demonstrates how critical education can open up spaces for a more equitable approach based on the co-production of knowledge. It is argued that making changes to policy and practice could inform and shape the literacy curriculum and its pedagogy if adult literacy can disentangle itself from instrumental approaches driven by neoliberal fusion and instead create critical space for contextualised and emancipatory learning.

Disaster linguicism: Linguistic minorities in disasters

AbstractLanguage is a means of communication but it functions as much more than this in social life. In emergencies and disasters, it can also be a matter of life and death. Language barriers and effective communication in disaster contexts (i.e. distributing critical disaster information and warnings) are the central concern in current disaster research, practice, and policy. However, based on the data drawn from qualitative interviews with linguistic minority immigrants and refugees in Canterbury, New Zealand and Miyagi, Japan, I argue that linguistic minorities confront unique disaster vulnerability partly due to linguicism—language-based discrimination at multiple levels. As linguicism is often compounded by racism, it is not properly addressed and analyzed, using the framework of language ideology and power. This article therefore introduces the concept of disaster linguicism, employing Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, to explore linguistic minorities’ complex disaster experiences in the 2010–2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters. (Disaster linguicism, language barriers, language ideologies)*

Let the right one in: A Bourdieusian analysis of gender inequality in universities’ senior management

This article examines the lack of gender diversity in senior management positions in professional staff in universities. These results are analysed via a Bourdieusian analysis of economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital. Through a purposeful sample of senior professional staff working in universities in three countries: Australia, Canada and the UK, six career‐enhancing strategies needed for career success were determined. The article critiques the resource‐based view of career capital and argues that capitals accumulation for career success can be understood by considering the concepts of symbolic violence and habitus as a way of understanding intra‐cohort differences. It proposes that by considering both the subjective and objective cultural constructs via habitus, and by acknowledging the importance of symbolic capital and symbolic violence towards women, this may be one way of increasing female representation in senior management.