Results for “Bourdieu”

Publications and talks 4

2023
Talk
The national object: accounting for subjectivity after anthropocentrism

Contemporary debates on nationalism are caught in a recurring impasse: sociologists in the tradition of Elias treat national attachment as a matter of individual choice — an identity that can, in principle, be supersede…

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2023
Peer-reviewed
Bourdieu's field theory revisited: a case for 'national signification'
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

This essay investigates whether the term national signification may serve better than the more common national identity to describe how sports people variously enrol and reference the nation to position themselves and t…

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2022
Talk
Bourdieu's field theory revisited: a case for 'national signification'

This paper investigates whether the term *national signification* may serve better than the more common *national identity* to describe how sports people variously enrol and reference the nation to position themselves a…

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2005
Article
Signifying the body: nation, sport and the cultural analysis of {Pierre Bourdieu}

The present study is an interrogation of theories of culture and nation in the context of spectacular sports. It proposes a view of nationalism as discourses that articulate and produce nations through narrative acts. A…

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Blog posts 7

6 Jun, 2025
How many readers do we have?
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Certainly, in a digital era this question cannot be simply answered by referring to the number of copies sold or otherwise in circulation. Page hits (such as provided by Google Analytics or Matomo) ca…
28 Mar, 2024
There IS a link between silence and politics
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The critical inflexion of this would amount to something like “for you to hold this post, or achieve this kind of recognition (Bourdieu) you must at least appear to subscribe to our dogma”, and thus r…
22 Mar, 2023
New essay on elite athletes
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My essay “Bourdieu’s Field Theory Revisited: A Case for ‘National Signification’” has been published by Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, the peer-reviewed journal of the British Philosophy of Sport Assoc…
1 Sep, 2017
More stuff and poems here...
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Follow this link to get to the blog that predated this site. There you’ll find summaries and links to essays, poems, short snippets on sundry philosophic topics, movies, language, and so on. Read abou…
28 Jul, 2017
Everything you need to know about sport in the global media
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New book by Torgeir Fjeld out on Scholars’ Press. Among the key questions raised in this book are: Has globalization come to an end or are we forever shaped by the centrifugal forces that bind us eve…
3 Jul, 2017
Some recent publications
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“Out of time, or Anderson’s national temporality revisited” in Networking Knowledges, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016. This peer-reveiwed paper discusses, among other things, the notion of Messianic time (Walter…
13 Nov, 2016
Dressage and illusio
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What should we make of the terms dressage and illusio in the context of sports? Dressage is a way to make bodies submit, to domesticate and somatise, so that they can be governed and mastered. In spo…
About Torgeir Fjeld
Torgeir Fjeld is a writer, publisher, and educational administrator, holding PhDs in Philosophy (EGS, 2017) and Cultural Theory (Roehampton, 2012). His publications include Introducing Ereignis: Philosophy, Technology, Way of Life (2022) and Rock Philosophy (2019), with articles in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and elsewhere. He serves as Head of Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts, Publisher at Tankebanen forlag, and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Inscriptions, and has taught at universities across North America, Europe, and Africa. Torgeir Fjeld‘s latest talk was “Snow blind: on inoperativity and desolation in Askildsen, Fosse, and Naess” at 50 years of Scandinavian studies in Gdańsk, University of Gdańsk, Poland in November 2025. Here is section dedicated to poetry in translation. This page has a cookie policy.
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