Habitus is a concept developed by the late French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, as a 'sense of one's place...a sense of the other's place'. It relates to our perceptions of the positions (or 'place') of ourselves and other people in the world in which we live and how these perceptions affect our actions and interactions with places and people. Habitus implies that a web of complex processes links the physical, the social and the mental. Inspired by this concept, this compelling book brings together leading scholars from interdisciplinary fields to examine ways in which spaces and places are constructed, interpreted and used by different people. This second edition contains updated chapter material, together with an entirely new introduction and revised conclusions which recognise the importance of Bourdieu's work. This publication is a tribute to Pierre Bourdieu's remarkable contribution to the fields of sociology, anthropology, geography, political philosophy and urban planning.
Contents: Introduction to Second Edition: Committed scholarship, Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby; Introduction to First Edition, Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby; Habitus, Pierre Bourdieu. Politics of Space and Place: Democracy and the question of power, Ernesto Laclau; Politics: territorial or non-territorial?, Paul Hirst; Toleration and the art of international governance: how is it possible to 'Live Together' in a fragmenting international system?, Grahame F. Thompson; Which kind of public space for a democratic habitus?, Chantal Mouffe; Metropolitan liberalism and colonial autocracy, Barry Hindess; Governmentality and regional economic strategies, Joe Painter. Process of Place-Making: Mind the gap, Jean Hillier; Place, identity and governance: transforming discourses and practices, Patsy Healey; Difference, fear and habitus: a political economy of urban fears, Leonie Sandercock; Spectral cities: where the repressed returns and other short stories, Steve Pile; Crime and the design of the built environment: Anglo-American comparisons of policy and practice, Ted Kitchen and Richard H Schneider; The silent complicity of architecture, Kim Dovey; Belonging: towards a theory of identification with space, Neil Leach. Decolonising Spatial Habitus: Placemaking as project? Habitus and migration in transnational cities, John Friedmann; Enduring landscape, changing habitus: the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia, Roxana Waterson; The endurance of Aboriginal women in Australia, Fay Gale; Belonging, naming, and decolonisation, Val Plumwood. Conclusions, Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby; Index.
