Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Part A: An Introduction To Pierre Bourdieu’s Concepts Chapter 1. Pierre Bourdieu and his conceptual tools Part B: Bourdieu In Practice: Using Theory To Understand Physical Cultures Chapter 2. ‘I’ll go back next week – it’s complicated’: Returning to dance with the help of Bourdieu Chapter 3. Bourdieu, physical culture and universities Chapter 4. ‘Stop: No’. Exploring social suffering in practices of surfing as opportunities for change Chapter 5. Bourdieu in the Changing Room Chapter 6. Putting habitus to work in research on how coaches learn through experience: Identifying a coaching habitus Chapter 7. Challenging the economy of gendered practices in PE using Bourdieu’s embodied reflexive sociology Chapter 8. Skirting the issue: Women boxers, liminality and change Chapter 9. Entering the field as a sports coordinator: negotiating the micropolitics of the profession Chapter 10. Bourdieu, young people and physical activity: Intersecting fields of social class and family Chapter 11. The paradox of physical activity for Qatari women: Researcher hysteresis and reflexivity Chapter 12. Understanding dis/ability in Physical Education through the lens of Bourdieu Chapter 13. Symbolic capital and the hetero norm as doxa in Physical Education Chapter 14. Understanding snowboarding bodies with Bourdieu: Some reflections from the snow field Chapter 15. Bourdieu and Body Part C: Issues And Tensions Using Bourdieu Chapter 16. Thinking with and outside Bourdieu Chapter 17. Does my research look good in that? Problems, politics and processes when choosing social theory in research in physical culture Chapter 18. Bourdieu comes off the bench: a reflexive analysis of the circulation of ideas within the sociology of sport field Chapter 19. Continuing to work with, against and beyond Bourdieu

About the Author

lisahunter researches and teaches in movement, subjectivities, epistemology, research methods (participatory activist research, visual, narrative, sensory, (auto)ethnography), pedagogy, sex/gender/sexualities, and fields of sport/leisure, health, and education　


Wayne Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Wayne drew on Bourdieu’s framework for his doctoral thesis and subsequent published articles　


elke emerald is a Senior Lecturer in The School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Australia. elke's current research investigates the impacts of research on the researcher