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Embodied social capital and geographic perspectives: performing the habitus

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Zeitschriftentitel: Progress in Human Geography
Personen und Körperschaften: Holt, Louise
In: Progress in Human Geography, 32, 2008, 2, S. 227-246
Medientyp: E-Article
Sprache: Englisch
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SAGE Publications
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Zusammenfassung: <jats:p> This paper reopens debates of geographic theorizations and conceptualizations of social capital. I argue that human geographers have tended to underplay the analytic value of social capital, by equating the concept with dominant policy interpretations. It is contended that geographers could more explicitly contribute to pervasive critical social science accounts. With this in mind, an embodied perspective of social capital is constructed. This synthesizes Bourdieu's capitals and performative theorizations of identity, to progress the concept of social capital in four key ways. First, this theorization more fully reconnects embodied differences to broader socio-economic processes. Second, an exploration of how embodied social differences can emerge directly from the political-economy and/or via broader operations of power is facilitated. Third, a path is charted through the endurance of embodied inequalities and the potential for social transformation. Finally, embodied social capital can advance social science conceptualizations of the spatiality of social capital, by illuminating the importance of broader sociospatial contexts and relations to the embodiment of social capital within individuals. </jats:p>
Umfang: 227-246
ISSN: 1477-0288
0309-1325
DOI: 10.1177/0309132507087648