Abstract
The chapter begins with an analysis of economic facts and an attempt to understand their relationship with personal forms of power and domination. This task, it is argued, is best achieved by framing domination with one of Bourdieu’s core concepts, namely “symbolic domination.” It will in fact be shown that by framing domination in this way, one can begin to better understand the complex ways in which different forms of domination are imbricated under the neoliberal condition.
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All quotations extracted for Bourdieu and Boltanski (1976) that include page numbers are my own translations from the French.
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Masquelier, C. (2017). Conceptualizing Neoliberal Domination. In: Critique and Resistance in a Neoliberal Age. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40194-6_11
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