Fields of struggle: a Bourdieusian analysis of conflicts over criminal justice in England, c. 1820-1850
Journal article
Tennant, M. 2014. Fields of struggle: a Bourdieusian analysis of conflicts over criminal justice in England, c. 1820-1850. Social History. 39 (1), pp. 36-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2013.875712
Authors | Tennant, M. |
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Abstract | The nineteenth century ‘revolution in government’, from which a dramatically altered relationship between central and local government emerged, is of central concern to social historians. This article uses the work of Pierre Bourdieu to analyse the struggles between the magistracy in Cheshire and the Home Office over the centralisation of prisons and policing between the 1820s and 1840s. During this period legislative enactments increased the role of central government in monitoring and overseeing administrative management in both areas and this produced both direct and indirect conflict. The article argues that Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘field’, ‘capital’ and ‘habitus’ provide a framework for analysing the changing relationship between central and local government which makes evident the effects of divisions between and within social classes and enables the varying nature of the course and outcome of conflicts to be understood. Overall the analysis demonstrates the potential of the approach to be used more widely to explore the changing relationship between central and local government in other areas of social policy. |
Year | 2014 |
Journal | Social History |
Journal citation | 39 (1), pp. 36-55 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 0307-1022 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2013.875712 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 19 Mar 2014 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 18 May 2016 |
Accepted | 12 Dec 2013 |
Output status | Published |
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https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/87v65/fields-of-struggle-a-bourdieusian-analysis-of-conflicts-over-criminal-justice-in-england-c-1820-1850
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