ABSTRACT
This chapter builds on what has been said in the Introduction on Bourdieusian scholarship and, specifically, the related concepts of habitus and field. Here, it is contended that the tendency to link Liverpool, regeneration, home, and the past to the micro level of home (dwelling/street/neighbourhood/district), and the tendency to link Liverpool, regeneration, home, and the present to the meso or macro level of home (city centre, waterfront, and reputation on the global scale), as identified in earlier chapters, can be explained via these Bourdieusian concepts. It is posited that habitus – a slow, stealthy, and silent process whereby people are brought to a new way of thinking, feeling, and being, without them even realising it, is a possible explanation for conceptualising Liverpool, regeneration, and home at one level (micro/meso) in connection to the past, but quite another (macro) in the present. The field is conceptualised as the advanced capitalist, neoliberal, globalised arena within which the habitus takes place.
