Reflections on Wallace’s The Culture Trap

Smith, A. (2023) Reflections on Wallace’s The Culture Trap. Ethnic and Racial Studies, (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2023.2220395) (Early Online Publication)

Abstract

In this response to Wallace’s new study I reflect, in particular, on an implicit conversation between the analytical perspectives of Pierre Bourdieu and Stuart Hall which is threaded through the study as a whole. Part of what makes The Culture Trap as compelling as it is, I argue, is the deft but tricky balance that Wallace strikes in this regard, and I explore some of the ways in which that balance is enacted, particularly in relation to questions about how we understand “culture”, and about how far we can treat culture as a site of resistance to forms of social domination.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Early Online Publication
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Smith, Professor Andrew
• Authors: Smith, A.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
• Journal Name: Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 0141-9870
• ISSN (Online): 1466-4356
• Published Online: 13 June 2023
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 The Author
• First Published: First published in Ethnic and Racial Studies 2023
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License