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Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice is widely regarded as among
the most innovative and illuminating fruits of recent social
thought. As evidence mounts that the "spatial turn" in the social
sciences and humanities is no mere theoretical fad, but rather an
enduring paradigm of social and cultural research, Bourdieu's
status as a profoundly spatial thinker takes on a renewed
importance. The Spatial Logic of Social Struggle: A Bourdieuian
Topology focuses on Bourdieu's philosophy of space, arguing that
space is at once a condition for social knowledge, a methodological
instrument, and a physical context for practice. By considering
Bourdieu's theory of social space and fields alongside his several
accounts of socially potent physical spaces, Nikolaus Fogle
develops an understanding of the systematic co-determinations
between social and physical space. He traces Bourdieu's ideas about
the spatiality of social life through his investigations of
Algerian peasant villages and Gothic cathedrals, as well as spaces
of class, lifestyle and cultural creation, revealing that social
and environmental struggles are only logical insofar as they are
topological. He also demonstrates how a Bourdieuian dialectical
understanding of social and physical space can be brought to bear
on contemporary issues in architecture and urban development. This
book will be useful and accessible not only to philosophers, but
also to architects, geographers, sociologists, and other scholars
in the social sciences and humanities who take an interest in the
social theory of space.
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