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The Sixth Sense : Finding Bourdieu

  Well, I only discovered my theoretical framework of analysis into Chapter Three.  It was tucked away in an insignificant reference by Akhil Gupta in his key article Blurred Boundaries on everyday practices of postcolonial bureaucrats : Research on the state, with its focus on large-scale structures, epochal events, major policies, and "important" people (Evans et al. 1985; Skocpol 1979), has failed to illuminate the quotidian practices (Bourdieu 1977) of bureaucrats that tell us about the effects of the state on the everyday lives of rural people. (Gupta,1995 p. 376) I am convinced that there is a God of Sixth Sense that guides me unconsciously to things that I am hardly aware of, that I need, and that are invisible.  What possessed me to look up Pierre Bourdieu remains a mystery. I ordered an Outline of a Theory of Practice and never looked back since. It wasn't easy to get a grip on the stuff as Pierre tends to be write long convoluted sentences which gain layers as h...
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