Language is not simply a tool for communication - symbolic power struggles underlie any speech act, discourse move, or verbal interaction, be it in face-to-face

This book tells the dramatic and often surprising story of the learning of the Irish language by Irish Republican prisoners held in the infamous H-block cells d

Through Pierre Bourdieu's work in Kabylia (Algeria), he develops a theory on symbolic power.

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the