Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2025

Civil wars as situations of radical social change: Thinking ruptures, with and beyond Bourdieu

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This chapter considers the applicability of Bourdieu's conceptual tools to the analysis of civil wars – moments in which the legitimacy of the state and established hierarchies are radically and violently contested. While questioning some of Bourdieu's assumptions, the authors nonetheless demonstrate the heuristic value of thinking with and beyond Bourdieu for making sense of civil wars. Drawing on a wealth of research evidence, they document how civil war entails fragmentation of fields, dramatic changes in the value of specific capitals, misalignments of habitus and struggles over the interpretation of events. Civil wars also reveal the importance of communal allegiances and the transnational dynamics underpinning what might otherwise be attributed to the state – both elements of the social world given only scant attention by Bourdieu himself and in need of further investigation.

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hal-05524944 , version 1 (24-02-2026)

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Adam Baczko, Gilles Dorronsoro. Civil wars as situations of radical social change: Thinking ruptures, with and beyond Bourdieu. Will Atkinson (ed.). For a New Political Sociology. The Relational Approach of Pierre Bourdieu, Routledge, pp.101-119, 2025, 9781032813332. ⟨10.4324/9781003499282-7⟩. ⟨hal-05524944⟩
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