Michael Grenfell is Professor of Education at Trinity College Dublin. His books include Pierre Bourdieu: Acts of Practical Theory, Pierre Bourdieu: Agent Provocateur, Bordieu: Education and Training and co-author of Pierre: Bourdieu: Language, Education and Culture and Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts.
The book manages that extraordinary feat of offering both accessible introductions to Bourdieu's concepts that are 'good to think with' whilst also offering a depth of analysis that will engage with scholars already familiar with Bourdieu's work. Whether a chapter says something new about familiar concepts like habitus, field, or capital, or it introduces less discussed concepts like conatus, the writing stretches the reader's understanding of what sociological theory can be.' Arthur Frank, University of Calgary.