Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter

IF 1.9 2区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Cooperation and Conflict Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI:10.1177/00108367231154165

Emma Mc Cluskey

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Abstract

This article pushes the work of Bourdieu to more ethnographic directions within international social sciences, particularly studies of everyday (in)security. Thematically, it looks at how transformations in global politics towards increased xenophobia and the normalisation of ‘far-right’ politics can be examined through mobilising ‘Bourdieu the ethnographer’ (Blommaert, 2005). Using the example of Sweden, and an ethnography of everyday life around a refugee resettlement facility in 2013 and 2014, the article argues that Bourdieu the ethnographer provides important conceptual tools for understanding the way in which logics of (in)security shifted ever further into everyday life. This thus offers an interesting way to think about the normalisation of far-right and xenophobic politics more broadly. Through conducting this specific type of Bourdieu-inspired ethnography, the article empirically grounds the ‘habitus’ of the so-called ‘far-right’ voter. Taking seriously the temporal dimension of habitus, Bourdieu the ethnographer orients analysis towards transformation, evolution and flux, allowing ‘far-right’ to be conceived relationally. In the Swedish case, we are thus able to trace the shift from a ‘welcoming’ to an ‘exclusionary’ type of politics.

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民族学家布迪厄:为“极右翼”选民的习惯打下基础

这篇文章将布迪厄的工作推向了国际社会科学中更多的民族志方向，特别是日常安全研究。从主题上讲，它着眼于如何通过动员“民族学家布迪厄”来检查全球政治向仇外心理增加和“极右翼”政治正常化的转变(Blommaert, 2005)。以瑞典为例，以及2013年和2014年围绕难民安置设施的日常生活的民族志，本文认为民族志学者布迪厄为理解安全逻辑如何进一步转移到日常生活中提供了重要的概念工具。因此，这为更广泛地思考极右翼和仇外政治的正常化提供了一种有趣的方式。通过进行这种布迪厄启发的特定类型的民族志，文章经验地为所谓的“极右翼”选民的“习惯”奠定了基础。民族志学者布迪厄认真地考虑了习性的时间维度，将分析导向转变、进化和流动，允许“极右翼”被关联地构想出来。在瑞典的案例中，我们因此能够追溯从“欢迎”到“排斥”类型的政治转变。

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