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.CONVERSATIONS WITH BOURDIEUTHE JOHANNESBURG MOMENTMICHEL BURAWOY AND KARL VON HOLDTCONVERSATIONS WITH BOURDIEUTHE JOHANNESBURG MOMENTMICHEL BURAWOY AND KARL VON HOLDTPublished in South Africa by:Wits University Press1 Jan Smuts AvenueJohannesburgwww.witspress.co.zaCopyright© Michael Burawoy and Karl von Holdt 2012First published 2012ISBN 978-1-86814-540-9All rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher, except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act, Act 98 of 1978.Edited by Alex PotterCover design and layout by Hothouse South AfricaPrinted and bound by Paarl MediaCONTENTSABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMSPREFACE MICHAEL BURAWOYPROLOGUE: The Johannesburg MomentKARL VON HOLDTCONVERSATION 1 SOCIOLOGY AS A COMBAT SPORTBourdieu Meets BourdieuMICHAEL BURAWOYBourdieu in South AfricaKARL VON HOLDTCONVERSATION 2 THEORY AND PRACTICEMarx Meets BourdieuMICHAEL BURAWOYBodies of DefianceKARL VON HOLDTCONVERSATION 3 CULTURAL DOMINATIONGramsci Meets BourdieuMICHAEL BURAWOYSymbolic ChallengeKARL VON HOLDTCONVERSATION 4 COLONIALISM AND REVOLUTIONFanon Meets BourdieuMICHAEL BURAWOYViolenceKARL VON HOLDTCONVERSATION 5 PEDAGOGY OF THE OPRESSEDFreire Meets BourdieuMICHAEL BURAWOYDisciplineKARL VON HOLDTCONVERSATION 6 THE ANTINOMIES OF FEMINISMBeauvoir Meets BourdieuMICHAEL BURAWOYTransforming Patriarchy?KARL VON HOLDTCONVERSATION 7 Intellectuals and Their PublicsMills Meets BourdieuMICHAEL BURAWOYThe Symbolic World of PoliticsKARL VON HOLDTCONVERSATION 8 MANUFACTURING DISSENTBurawoy Meets BourdieuMICHAEL BURAWOYThe Margin of FreedomKARL VON HOLDTEPILOGUE: Travelling Theory MICHAEL BURAWOYBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEXABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMSANC African National CongressCOSATU Congress of South African Trade UnionsCPF Community Policing ForumCWP Community Work ProgrammeDA Democratic AllianceFLN Front de Libération Nationale/ National Liberation FrontFOSATU Federation of South African Trade UnionsMEC Member of the Executive CouncilSACP South African Communist PartySWOP Society, Work and Development InstituteUDF United Democratic FrontPREFACEMICHAEL BURAWOYMy four-year stint with the Ford PhDs, which had brought me to the University of the Witwatersrand for three weeks every year, had come to an end.Karl von Holdt, then acting director of SWOP (the Society, Work and Development Institute) invited me to come to Wits for a semester on a Mellon Visiting Professorship.I would work with students and faculty and also give public lectures.There was interest in my giving lectures on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, which I had previously done at the University of Wisconsin.I revised and expanded these lectures from six to eight.As at Wisconsin, the idea was to bring together faculty and students from different departments and develop another side to SWOP’s activities.But Wits would be a different experience altogether, as Bourdieu was not the popular theorist in South Africa that he was in Wisconsin.After all, Bourdieu was not only a theorist of the North and from the North, but more specifically of France and from France, which made him more unfamiliar than Anglo-American theorists.His convoluted style of writing, his elliptical sentences, his erudition and his philosophical grounding – in sum, his deployment of cultural capital – make his work challenging to access.As I had done in Wisconsin, I sought to interpret Bourdieu by presenting his ideas in relation to Marxism through a series of imaginary conversations between Bourdieu and Marx, Gramsci, Fanon, Freire, Beauvoir, Mills and myself, respectively.Bourdieu makes reference to Marx – indeed, his work is a deep engagement with Marx (as well as Durkheim and Weber) – but Marx never receives a sustained examination.As for Gramsci, Fanon and Beauvoir, his scattered references and footnotes are contemptuous, while Freire and Mills hardly get a mention.Nonetheless, there are some interesting parallels and convergences with these theorists that more often than not evaporate under closer examination.My endeavour was to rescue these figures buried in Bourdieu with a view to problematising both Bourdieu and Marxism.The Marxists I chose – and I realise Mills had an ambiguous relationship with Marxism – were all concerned with developing a theory of superstructures or ideological domination, and therefore most convergent with what lies at the centre of Bourdieu’s opus: the theory of symbolic domination
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