“Missing link” or missed opportunity? Bourdieu, agency and the political economy of the social capital initiative

This paper looks to bring a fresh perspective to bear on the World Bank’s engagement with the concept of social capital. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, it examines the representations of agency portrayed in the World Bank’s Social Capital Initiative (SCI). Its guiding premise is that all such proj...

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Main Author: Edmund O’Donovan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Cogent Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2017.1308993