Have you read/listened to anything by Loic Wacquant? He has done some more recent work in this field, and I believe David Harvey has done some work with this too.
Thanks for these references. There's a wealth of modern scholarship in political economics, sociology, and ethnography today--with all the academic specialization that comes with writing on such well-travelled themes.
One striking difference between a lot of modern scholarship and work in Neurath's time comes down to his museum-studies approach, which was all about finding innovative ways to bring average citizens into civic education. He was famous for heuristic devices that allowed everyday visitors to interact with his depictions of political economy (e.g., through fluids that could be transferred between economic actors in displays of civic life), because he wanted more people actively aware of their role in these systems.
Conversely, contemporary scholarship can be quite insular, and fit to purpose for academic audiences. Wacquant's Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory (2023) is definitely shaped for a readership primed to view urban studies through past exposure to Pierre Bourdieu--a common move for academics, but one that closes off their work to the everyday public. (My only exposure to Harvey is through Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, though, which is much better written for an average audience!)
What resonated for you from Wacquant's wheelhouse? Does he come off as more geared toward general education in any of his recent interviews/talks?
It's been a minute since I looked into Wacquant, but from what I remember was his work looking into the treatment of Arab/Muslim immigrants in France and his look at Jim Crow in the US.
Have you read/listened to anything by Loic Wacquant? He has done some more recent work in this field, and I believe David Harvey has done some work with this too.
https://loicwacquant.org/
https://davidharvey.org/
Thanks for these references. There's a wealth of modern scholarship in political economics, sociology, and ethnography today--with all the academic specialization that comes with writing on such well-travelled themes.
One striking difference between a lot of modern scholarship and work in Neurath's time comes down to his museum-studies approach, which was all about finding innovative ways to bring average citizens into civic education. He was famous for heuristic devices that allowed everyday visitors to interact with his depictions of political economy (e.g., through fluids that could be transferred between economic actors in displays of civic life), because he wanted more people actively aware of their role in these systems.
Conversely, contemporary scholarship can be quite insular, and fit to purpose for academic audiences. Wacquant's Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory (2023) is definitely shaped for a readership primed to view urban studies through past exposure to Pierre Bourdieu--a common move for academics, but one that closes off their work to the everyday public. (My only exposure to Harvey is through Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, though, which is much better written for an average audience!)
What resonated for you from Wacquant's wheelhouse? Does he come off as more geared toward general education in any of his recent interviews/talks?
It's been a minute since I looked into Wacquant, but from what I remember was his work looking into the treatment of Arab/Muslim immigrants in France and his look at Jim Crow in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsqWyLoK2wE