A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is
returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The …

The last decades have seen the emergence of a divide pitting the new left against the far
right in advanced democracies. We study how this universalism-particularism divide is …

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu …

This article frames the themes of the two‐part Interventions section 'Bourdieu Comes to
Town'. I first establish the pertinence of Bourdieu's sociology for students of the city by …

This article argues the case for art tourism as a new field of tourist studies. At present, art
tourism is currently obscured under cultural tourism's voluminous bounds–which are as …

There is an enduring, indeed increasing awareness of the role of spatial location in defining
and reinforcing inequality in this country and beyond. In the UK, much of the debate around …

What is destination cultural capital, and what is its role in tourism? The present inquiry
addressed these questions by examining a mediated relationship among perceived …

In this paper, we develop a framework for studying the role of group identities in
contemporary cleavage formation. Identities, we suggest, hold the key to a central …

Neo-artisanal production is a growing milieu of contemporary urban cultural economy. This
article positions one area of this neo-artisanship–'craft'beer brewing–as pivotal to this urban …

Culture has become a major component of policies to put cities on the global map. This
article traces the shifting geographies of urban cultural capital using the lens of major …