Workshops

Oral History as an Ethnographic Method and Practice

How-To-Bourdieu Workshops

How-to-Bourdieu Workshops

For researchers in NGOs and students in higher education.

I train researchers on how to clarify and apply Pierre Bourdieu's sociological approaches to analyze the scholastic device of 'field.' While habitus, field and capital are Bourdieu's better-known tools, doxa and illusio are important to understanding the social logic of the field examined. What is scholastic fallacy? ...

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After submitting the thesis in Feb 24, I wrote a post on Finding Bourdieu.

I am convinced that there is a God of Sixth Sense that guides me unconsciously to things I am hardly aware of, I need, and are invisible. What possessed me to look up Pierre Bourdieu remains a mystery. I ordered an Outline of a Theory of Practice and never looked back since. It wasn't easy to get a grip on the stuff as Pierre B tends to write long convoluted sentences, which gain layer upon layer as he developed his conceptual tools. He preferred to call 'em 'relational conceptual approaches,' to underscore that they should not be misunderstood as being static concepts..."

Examiner notes on my thesis:

Schooling-in-Wartime in Northern Sri Lanka:

A Bourdieusian Exploration

"Fernando makes a compelling case for Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice to explain her empirical narratives..."

"Bourdieu’s terminology enables Fernando to explain how this tacit recognition of the value of education produces a number of seemingly paradoxical situations or outcomes.."

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All things Bourdieusian

Why did Pierre Bourdieu refer to Manet's habitus? How did Édouard Manet, the French modernist painter illustrate a capacity to overcome the existing polarities structuring the artistic order?

How do Bourdieu's tools explain the significance of children continuing to sit for national A Level exams even in rebel-held territory, during a long separatist war?

What was the significance of the carcass of the bull left in a girls' school during the civil war? The explanation is not symbolic but banal and illustrates how easily we fall into the trap of scholastic fallacy!

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Gaya Fernando PhD

Member, Oral History Society, UK

Workshops

Oral History as an Ethnographic Method and Practice

How-To-Bourdieu Workshops

Email me at gayathrif@gmail.com or send a message.

Gaya Fernando PhD

Member, Oral History Society, UK

Workshops Oral History as an Ethnographic Method and Practice How-To-Bourdieu Workshops

Email me at gayathrif@gmail.com or send a message.

Workshops

Oral History as an Ethnographic Method and Practice

How-To-Bourdieu Workshops