ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter considers the key themes of Fields, Capitals, Habitus in the light of the 40th anniversary of Distinction. It argues that Distinction’s ongoing ability to inspire work that is methodologically and theoretically innovative rests on the capacity to refine and extend Bourdieu’s approach. This current book has continued this process of adaptation through focusing on practices of taste across various cultural fields in contemporary Australia, a settler-colonial society shaped by increasing cultural diversity, technological change, globalisation and transnationalism. The chapter considers the different logics that are at play in the forms of cultural capital in circulation, and reflects on the ways in which the mobilisation of cultural capital as a governmental actor in Australia have differed from the political career that Bourdieu had envisaged.
