This study examines the practices of verbal and non-verbal violence found in Instagram reels contentby @mastercobuzier in response to public criticism of the (MBG) Program. Using Rodney H. Jones’s digital discourse analysis approach, this research explores how violence is produced and normalized through text, context, interactional actions, and power relations. The findings reveal forms of verbal violence such as the utterances “pala lu PA!”, “gue tabok!”, and “sekaya apa ente?”, which function as symbolic intimidation. Non-verbal elements including heightened intonation, pointing gestures, and emojis amplify the aggression and shape audience reception. The content shifts policy criticism into moral judgment of individuals, constructing the student who voiced criticism as improper and illegitimate. Ideologically, this pattern demonstrates elitist populism, in which public figures employ moral authority to silence criticism. Audience responses reveal the reproduction of symbolic violence through sarcastic comments, emphasizing that these power dynamics are not merely local phenomena but reflect global patterns in how public figures and digital platforms shape aggressive communication norms across cultures.

ABSTRACT Given the growing impact of right-wing, anti-immigration political actors in various geographic contexts, this research critically examines the structural conditions shaping sport-based integration initiatives for asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants in England and Hungary; two countries characterized by increasingly hostile political landscapes towards immigrants. Drawing on original observations of sport inclusion programmes and in-depth semi-structured interviews with charity delivery staff, the study investigates how prevailing political and sociocultural attitudes towards migration shape the possibilities and limits of such initiatives. Our use of a Bourdieusian theoretical framework is deployed to examine how sport can simultaneously operate as a mechanism of inclusion, fostering integration and social connection, and exclusion, reinforcing boundaries of nationhood and belonging. By examining the perceptions of programme delivery staff in hostile socio-political environments, we offer novel insights into the structural constraints on sport-based integration work and the strategies through which practitioners negotiate symbolic violence, precarious funding, and anti-immigration discourse in both national contexts.

ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic research conducted between 2010 and 2024 among first- and second-generation Palestinians in Germany, this article examines how anti-Palestinian racism is reproduced through discursive, institutional, and security regimes. It shows how dominant narratives surrounding Israel and Palestine, embedded in German memory politics and state practices, render Palestinian experiences of violence unintelligible or illegitimate, while recoding them through the idioms of terrorism and antisemitism. The article conceptualises anti-Palestinian racism as operating in part through symbolic violence, a process in which Palestinian suffering is systematically misrecognised, delegitimised, and recoded as threat. By analysing media discourse, political interventions, and everyday interactions, the article traces how these regimes shape the conditions of Palestinian life in Germany. It demonstrates how Palestinians are positioned outside the bounds of moral and political legitimacy, producing forms of non-grievability, self-erasure, and internalised stigma. Drawing on narrative-biographical interviews and long-term ethnographic engagement, the article further examines how these dynamics are negotiated across generations. The article argues that anti-Palestinian racism in Germany must be situated within broader histories of European racialisation, coloniality, and post-Holocaust formations of national identity within German memory politics, in which anti-Palestinian racism is constitutive.

ABSTRACT This paper presents the original theoretical concept of resigned habitus to explore how working-class students in DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) designated disadvantaged primary schools in Ireland navigate an educational system that privileges middle-class norms. Drawing on Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts, the research investigates how systemic school practices influence students to suppress their identities to achieve habitus-field congruence. This adaptation, while enabling conformity, has affective consequences – producing feelings of inferiority, anxiety, and disengagement. The paper draws from a narrative inquiry study with 41 pupils (aged 11–12) from three DEIS Urban Band 1 primary schools, using interviews and drawings to capture their lived experiences. Resigned habitus offers a deeper understanding of how class is experienced in disadvantaged primary schools, and how the internalisation of symbolic violence in everyday school interactions prompts an embodied affective response that sees some children hanging their habitus at the school gate.

This article is an ethnography of the Hitnü, a nomadic Indigenous people who, due to killings and threats, sought refuge in the city of Arauca, on the border with Venezuela (northeastern Colombia). It examines the urban experience of poverty and exclusion in a context of Indigenous rights and differentiated policies offered to the displaced and Indigenous peoples and demonstrates how different forms of violence affect their health and limit effective responses to illness. A four-month ethnographic study (2023-2024) was carried out, during which one of the authors lived with 68 members (12 families) of the El Alcaraván settlement in Arauca, Colombia. The data provide insight into the settlement's living conditions, the experience of illness in the urban context, the search for medical care, and the manifestations of violence. Respiratory infections and diarrhea are common among the Hitnü, and cases of tuberculosis and Chagas disease were also identified. So-called "mild illnesses" are managed through family-based self-care and treatment provided by the cacique, whereas "difficult illnesses" require biomedical intervention. Structural violence shapes both the burden of disease and the ways the Hitnü treat their ailments, particularly due to food insecurity, lack of drinking water, and inadequate sanitation. Venezuelan migrants, despite being foreigners, receive greater humanitarian assistance, generating tensions with the Hitnü. Physicians' practices tend to be hegemonic, highly medicalized, and revictimizing. Health services must be grounded in the actual needs of the Hitnü and guided by an intercultural approach based on the findings of this study. Ensuring a safe territory would prevent the reproduction of direct, structural, and symbolic violence, and reduce health inequities.

ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship is often portrayed as meritocratic, yet it often reproduces existing societal inequalities. Prior research shows that gendered inequality persists in access to resources and opportunities, but offers less clarity on how this inequality is sustained. Building on Bourdieu’s field perspective, we investigate structural homologies of gendered inequality across interdependent fields of startup and venture capital. Drawing on 31 interviews with women entrepreneurs and women venture capital funders in Tel Aviv, we identify two interlinked dynamics. First, gendered power operates through structural homologies of cross-field narratives of gendered habitus and symbolic violence. Second, women experience gendered inequality through ambivalence between counter-habitus and tactical accommodation. These findings contribute to the application of the Bourdieusian approach within entrepreneurship research.

What do therapists do? The question seems obvious, yet systemic therapy has struggled to answer it with the philosophical rigor that both professional identity and ethical practice require. This paper proposes a reflexive scientific practice grounded in two theoretical traditions rarely brought into dialogue with systemic therapy: the pragmatist philosophy of C.S. Peirce and the reflexive sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Drawing on Peirce, therapy is defined not as the treatment of dysfunction but as the professional resolution of doubt-the state arising when a client's habits of mind fail to navigate new social contexts. Drawing on Bourdieu, large-scale social forces are seen to produce the specific form of doubt Bourdieu calls hysteresis, and how unexamined therapeutic interventions risk enacting symbolic violence by imposing the therapist's habitus under the guise of clinical expertise. Together, Peirce and Bourdieu provide what systemic therapy has long needed: a framework that simultaneously grounds clinical authority in empirical, self-correcting practice and constrains that authority through systematic interrogation of the therapist's social position. Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) is presented as the operationalization of this synthesis, demonstrating how its problem-centered, cost-effectiveness, and failure-driven guidelines function not merely as pragmatic efficiency measures but as ethical safeguards against symbolic violence. This framework responds to recent calls for theoretical rigor in systemic practice while addressing a dimension those calls do not fully reach: the risk that theoretical authority enacts iatrogenic harm when deployed without reflexive discipline.

<bold>ABSTRACT</bold> In Brazil, a vast, culturally diverse, and socioeconomically unequal Global South country, football is a significant part of the popular culture. In this context, young migrant players attempting to negotiate their careers in football alongside their formal education face many challenges. The aims of this study were to analyse: (i) how young male migrant football student-athletes reconciled sport and education demands; (ii) the influence of their families over dispositions for dual career; (iii) the nature of their investments in school and football; and (iv) their clubs’ and schools’ support for dual careers. To achieve this, we conducted semi-structured interviews with eight U17 men's academy football players from a Brazilian professional club. We analysed the data using Reflexive Thematic Analysis and Bourdieu’s Reflexive Sociology as the theoretical framework. Three themes were generated: (i) Migration to accumulate football capital: cultural adaptations and the migrant football habitus; (ii) The influence of families’ cultural capital on student-athletes’ dispositions; and (iii) Club and school: the ‘competitive conciliation’ between demands and routines. We concluded that the young male migrant football players in our study, as student-athletes, faced multiple forms of domination. Symbolic violence, mainly from clubs and families, influenced their dispositions toward prioritising a football career over an academic one. Institutional and social factors, including the family's emphasis on a football career, physical exhaustion from training and travel for competitions, time-management challenges, a lack of consistent support for studies, and the undervaluing of academic achievements as a means of social mobility, shaped these dispositions.

ABSTRACT Successful inclusive education requires breaking down barriers between general and special education, with special education teachers in mainstream schools playing a crucial role. Employing constructivist grounded theory, this study conducted in-depth interviews with 27 special education teachers from mainstream primary schools across six cities in Heilongjiang Province, China, examining how they construct an inclusive education collaborative ecosystem under systemic constraints. These teachers face triple systemic constraints – structural marginalization, professional identity ambiguity, and resource acquisition barriers – placing them in an ‘island-like' marginalised position. Rather than remaining passive, they demonstrate high levels of professional agency, constructing collaborative ecosystems through four strategies: relationship network weaving, boundary-spanning practices, micro-political negotiation, and adaptive resource mobilization. These systems exhibit self-organization, dynamic equilibrium, resilience, and boundary permeability, transforming teachers from professional ‘islands' into interconnected professional communities. The study deepens analysis of inclusive education barriers to the levels of symbolic violence and micro-politics, reveals the collective and strategic turn of teacher agency in non-ideal environments, and proposes the concept of ‘adaptive collaborative ecosystems'. It suggests policy-making should shift from ‘control' to ‘empowerment', offering a new theoretical framework for educational system reform under constraining conditions and important insights for the localization of inclusive education practices in developing countries.

ABSTRACT Spain is often portrayed as an emblematic case of LGBTQ+ legal progress, owing to its early recognition of same-sex marriage and its consistently high position in international equality indices. Yet the everyday lives of many lesbians in Spain remain marked by lesbophobia, invisibility, and symbolic violence. Drawing on a ten-year feminist collaborative ethnography (2014–2024) with 254 self-identified lesbian participants living throughout Spain, and a sustained collaborative subgroup of 154 participants involved in later stages of the research, this article examines how lesbophobia persists across family life, institutions, and lesbian community spaces under conditions of formal legal equality. Building on this empirical material, this article proposes and develops endolesbophobia as an original situated analytic for naming the internalized, relational, and intra-community dimensions of lesbophobic violence, including guilt, negotiated visibility, and lateral policing. The article argues that legal inclusion does not eliminate lesbophobia, but often reorganizes it through ordinary, socially normalized, and difficult-to-name forms of regulation, silence, and self-management.

ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the issue of symbolic violence faced by international students of Middle Eastern-Islamic origin in Turkish universities. It further investigates the strategies these students use to confront and combat the violence they encounter. The research employed qualitative methods and conducted semi-structured interviews with thirteen international students. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the gathered data. The findings of this study underscore the persistent and pervasive nature of symbolic violence experienced by Middle Eastern-Islamic students. This violence is driven by cultural disparities, orientalist perspectives, and xenophobia, and is perpetuated by both faculty members and local students. As a result, students resort to negative coping mechanisms, such as silence, social isolation, and shared experiences. The study also highlights the ways in which symbolic violence manifests, primarily through language and behaviour. Faculty members and their Turkish peers are intrinsically tied to hierarchical relationship dynamics that manifest in various ways. When Middle Eastern-Islamic students conform to the established hierarchy and internalise it, they inadvertently perpetuate the hierarchical dynamics that categorise them as ‘the other’.

The Double Dominion Over Women's Bodies as a barrier to exercising sexual and reproductive rights: a mixed-methods study in La Ladrillera, Mexico

The lives, selves, and social worlds of racialized disabled children and their parents have been hidden and silenced under the weight of grand metanarratives about the white disabled child. In this way, the centrality of the white disabled Eurocentric child is a symbolic violence that has erased the lives of other children, especially Black children and their families. In this qualitative interpretive study, we utilized a theoretically informed approach to explore the parenting journeys of Black parents who care for disabled children. We found that anti-Black racism, as symbolic violence, was constituted by health care narratives about biological determinism. Health systems also symbolically violated the lives of Black mothers through practices of bodily control and surveillance, and the wisdom and generational knowledge of Black mothers as experts on their children’s lives was erased through the practice of being rendered incompetent. Implications: Following calls by Black feminists, we suggest that scholars, theorists, and clinicians must theoretically and empirically center the lives of Black mothers with disabled children while recognizing the grave harms of anti-Black racism in children’s hospital spaces.

This study addresses the relationship between school climate, mental health, and violence in Brazilian basic education, analyzing the challenges faced by school communities and the strategies available for preventing violent behavior in the educational environment. The research adopts a qualitative bibliographic approach through the systematized review of national academic productions indexed in recognized databases such as SciELO, CAPES Periodicals, and university repositories, with a corpus of fifteen works published during the period of greatest recent production on the topic. The analysis shows that school climate plays a decisive role in promoting the psychological well-being of students and education professionals, with environments marked by hostility and insecurity intensifying emotional suffering and contributing to the perpetuation of cycles of violence. The results indicate that school violence, in its multiple forms, including bullying, physical aggression, and symbolic violence, directly compromises the mental health of students and teachers, generating disorders such as anxiety, depression, and burnout syndrome. The study identifies that the most effective prevention strategies combine improvements to school climate, the promotion of socioemotional skills, continuing teacher education, and the implementation of integrated public policies. There is also an urgent need to overcome the fragmentation of preventive initiatives by promoting intersectoral actions involving schools, families, health services, and public authorities. It is concluded that the construction of safe, welcoming, and democratic school environments is an indispensable condition for the full development of students and for the effective guarantee of the right to quality education in Brazil.

This study examines the multimedia representation of structural economic constraints driving the commodification of women's bodies (Soma) in the informal sector along Java’s North Coast Route (Pantura). The research employs a qualitative approach using Critical Semiotic Analysis, drawing on Roland Barthes’ framework of denotation, connotation, and myth. The primary data consist of verbal and visual signs from the film Pangku, including dialogue, settings, body gestures, and narrative structures. These signs are interpreted through Materialist Feminism, Social Reproduction Theory, and the Constrained Choices framework to reveal how capitalism, patriarchy, and informality shape women’s labor and agency. The findings reveal that Sartika’s participation in kopi pangku labor is not a free choice but a structurally constrained survival strategy driven by poverty, gendered labor markets, and the absence of state protection. Her body and emotions are commodified as productive resources in the informal economy, while her reproductive labor as a single mother remains unpaid and socially devalued. The study identifies a condition of double exploitation, where surplus value is extracted simultaneously from affective, sexual, and caregiving labor. Additionally, symbolic violence operates through emotional debt, moral stigma, and narratives of benevolence that normalize exploitation and erode social capital across generations. The study concludes that Pangku represents women’s exploitation not as an individual moral failure but as a systemic outcome of patriarchal capitalism. Sartika’s experience demonstrates how constrained choices produce the illusion of autonomy while continuously relocating exploitation from public production spaces to domestic and intimate spheres. The film exposes how informal labor regimes and patriarchal family structures mutually reinforce women’s subordination specifically analysing how cinematographic codes transform labor into a visual commodity

Thomas Keneally’s novel The Corporal Hitler’s Pistol interweaves the lives of various characters in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, on the eve of the Second World War through the circulation of a Luger pistol. This article seeks to move beyond the traditional lens of economic determinism by incorporating Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of the “linguistic market” and “symbolic violence,” alongside Michel Foucault’s analysis of disciplinary power and discourse over the body. It focuses on the narrative episode in which the female protagonist, Flo Honeywood, unsuccessfully attempts to obtain a divorce. Through an etymological excavation and close textual reading of the key legal term “criminal conversation,” the article reveals how the Australian legal system in 1933 deprived women of discursive agency by means of obscure terminological barriers and asymmetrical dialogic mechanisms. Furthermore, by introducing Anna Weber as a mirror figure for comparative analysis, and by incorporating an intersectional perspective on Indigenous relations, the study explores the fragmentation of female identity under the dual structures of patriarchy and colonialism. The study argues that the legal system depicted in the novel is not an embodiment of justice but rather a “complicit agent” in maintaining male honor and property order within a patriarchal society. Within this framework, women are subjected to a dual form of violence: physical violence within the domestic sphere and symbolic violence within the public legal domain. The law’s prioritization of “honor” over women’s “survival” ultimately facilitates the systematic disciplining and erasure of female subjectivity at the institutional level.

Corrosive acid attacks remain a persistent form of interpersonal violence in Indonesia and continue to feature in national news coverage through 2024–2025. Although existing scholarship has addressed legal disparities, survivor trauma, and gendered power relations, less attention has been paid to how news reporting itself shapes public meaning-making and potentially reinforces symbolic scripts of violence. Drawing on media contagion theory, this study examines how Indonesian online news frames acid attacks and how such representations may unintentionally amplify imitation risk. Using qualitative content analysis, the study analyses 36 news articles published between 2017 and 2025 from widely accessed national outlets. Three patterns emerge. First, reporting repeatedly foregrounds emotionally salient motives jealousy, humiliation, and revenge rendering violence culturally intelligible as an interpersonal response. Second, offenders and victims are positioned through moral and symbolic framing, often emphasizing legible grievance alongside spectacularised injury. Third, coverage aligns with contagion pathways through procedural visibility, intertextual linking to high-profile cases, and vivid visualization, while prevention and deterrence receive limited attention. The findings underscore the ethical importance of reporting practices that foreground accountability and harm reduction and that disrupt retributive scripts rather than consolidating them.

ABSTRACT Transgenerational child sexual abuse (CSA-T) remains one of the most hidden yet persistent forms of interpersonal trauma, reproducing harm across generations and deepening gender-based violence through its disproportionate emotional, symbolic, and social impact on women. This study examines the performative effects of dominant cultural and institutional discourses surrounding motherhood on Chilean women who are non-offending mothers and survivors of CSA, and whose children have also experienced sexual abuse. This study employed a qualitative design grounded in feminist and social constructionist epistemologies. Eight participants engaged in in-depth interviews, and six of them subsequently participated in a photointervention process. Thematic discourse analysis revealed how social mandates of maternal blame, idealized responsibility, and protective failure are internalized and reproduced, exacerbating psychological distress and social isolation. Based on these findings, a quadrant model was developed to map the intersection between the type of institutional intervention and the emotional, symbolic, and relational effects experienced by these women. Findings highlight the symbolic violence exerted by institutional and therapeutic frameworks that individualize responsibility for child protection, reinforcing gendered trauma and limiting access to supportive care. This article calls for a collective rethinking of childcare as a shared social responsibility and underscores the need for trauma-informed, gender-sensitive policies and interventions.

Time structures urban life not only through daily routines but through the abstracting logics of capitalist governance. Once monetised, measured, and bureaucratically sequenced, time becomes a governing instrument that organises space, allocates legitimacy, and privileges productivity. Yet the temporal politics of street experiments remain undertheorised. Drawing on Lefebvre’s concept of abstract space-time, this paper reconceptualises street experiments as sites of spatiotemporal governance where abstraction operates through temporal allocation. We develop a triadic framework of timing, rhythms, and duration to show how structural, symbolic, and direct violence are enacted through the sequencing, stabilisation, and withdrawal of temporal possibilities. Using two Hong Kong cases—a 1-day pedestrianisation on Des Voeux Road Central and the long-term informal appropriation of the Western District Public Cargo Pier—we show how timing confines interventions to administratively sanctioned or crisis-defined windows; how dominant rhythms (commercial circulation, festival activation, platform-driven surges) stabilise certain uses while moralising others as disorder; and how duration governs whether alternative practices sediment or are compressed and terminated. In Central, preventive temporal compression limited the stabilisation of new rhythms. At the Pier, decades of informal coexistence were reorganised under pandemic risk logics amid spatial concentration and intensified attention-driven demand. Rather than opposing “top-down” and “bottom-up” time, the paper shows how bureaucratic, market, and platform temporalities intersect and how municipal governance manages their contradictions within constrained urban space. By foregrounding temporal conflict, the paper extends Lefebvre’s theory of abstraction and positions rhythmanalysis as a method for examining how spatiotemporal orders are stabilised and contested in urban experimentation.

ABSTRACT This article analyses the academic trajectories of women postdoctoral researchers at Chilean universities, a key and little-explored period for understanding the persistence of gender inequalities in academia. In a context marked by the formal institutionalization of equality policies and, simultaneously, by the deepening of the neoliberal university model, the study asks how job insecurity and the sex/gender order interact in shaping these trajectories. The research adopts a qualitative approach based on in-depth interviews with postdoctoral women researchers from different disciplines. Through a narrative-thematic analysis, both the structural conditions of academic work—temporary contracts, productivity demands, and standardization—and the subjective experiences linked to care work, motherhood, and the balance of family and professional life are examined. The results reveal fragmented and non-linear trajectories, marked by job uncertainty, pressure to meet performance metrics, and a lack of institutional support for care. Likewise, practices of symbolic violence and the internalization of meritocratic discourses that contribute to normalizing precariousness are identified. The article concludes that the postdoctoral stage is a critical juncture for the perpetuation of gender inequalities and emphasizes the necessity for university policies that comprehensively address working conditions, academic evaluation criteria, and the recognition of care work.