Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific

Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific capitalises on the intellectual and political bequest of the French sociologist to analyse and debate problems associated with education and social justice within, between, and beyond nations of Asia Pacific. The series welcomes theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions – in the forms of authored books and edited volumes – that draw on but do not consecrate Bourdieu. It opens up an intellectual space for educational research to utilise, critique, and/or extend Bourdieu’s toolkits – including but not limited to his signature concepts of capital, habitus, and field – for the sake of educational equality and social change. The series does not take the economic and geopolitical classification of ‘the Asia Pacific’ as a given. Instead, it encourages contestation, deconstruction, and reconstruction of that classification – whether as a discursive or ontological category – by deliberately embracing the syntactic inelegance of the term, Asia Pacific.