This article demonstrates how the work of Pierre Bourdieu offers a productive way to practice
research in international relations. It especially explores the alternatives opened by …

A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the
ship of global finance have instead become as destabilizing as they are dominant. While …

Field theorists have long insisted that research needs to pay attention to the particular
properties of each field studied. But while much field‐theoretical research is comparative …

The new interest in transnational phenomena since the 1990s has produced a wide range of
studies across the social sciences. In the discipline of history, Akira Iriye (1989: 2) has called …

In this programmatic introduction, we lay out the foundations of an approach to analyzing
knowledge-based political phenomena beyond the nation state from a field perspective. We …

How does field theory unfold at the transnational level? How tailored is it to weakly
differentiated international settings featured by limited statehood? By raising such questions …

With its highly visible “academic elite”, the US is regarded as a worldwide center of
knowledge production. In this context, we reveal the structure of US American elite sociology …

How to analyse and to describe the various ways power aggregates, concentrates and
circulates in the world; a world which is politically fragmented, but where everyday lives are …

In recent times, the analytical potential of Bourdieusian theory has been impressively
exemplified by research on numerous phenomena both 'across' and 'beyond'the nation …

This open access book describes how elite studies theoretically and methodologically
construct their object, ie how particular conceptualizations of elites are turned into research …