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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-19 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Critical Perspectives On Accounting |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 15 Oct 2010 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2011 |
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Keywords
- Bourdieu
- Calculative practices
- Absence ofaccounting
- Forms ofcapital
- Ethnography
- Gem mining
- Habitus
- Symbolic forms
- symblic power
- Sri Lanka
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The calculative reproduction of social structures : The field of gem mining in Sri Lanka. / Alawattage, Chandana Gnanapriya.
In: Critical Perspectives On Accounting, Vol. 22, No. 1, 01.01.2011, p. 1-19.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The calculative reproduction of social structures
T2 - The field of gem mining in Sri Lanka
AU - Alawattage, Chandana Gnanapriya
PY - 2011/1/1
Y1 - 2011/1/1
N2 - Drawing on Bourdieu's political economy of symbolic forms and symbolic power, and on an ethnography of gem mining rituals in Sri Lanka, this paper aims to provide an empirical illustration of the connection between calculative practices and the social structure of capital. It shows how capital is socially structured around particular fields of reproduction, how the field-specific organisation of capital is implicated in the presence and absence of calculative and control practices, and how calculative templates and procedures, as symbolic systems, simultaneously perform interrelated but distinct functions of cognition, communication and domination. The paper advances the argument that calculative templates and procedures constitute a field-specific logic and they are the symbolic means through which structural properties of the social systems are cognised, communicated, reproduced and transformed into a set of practical dispositions that orient day-to-day work practices, domination and resistance.
AB - Drawing on Bourdieu's political economy of symbolic forms and symbolic power, and on an ethnography of gem mining rituals in Sri Lanka, this paper aims to provide an empirical illustration of the connection between calculative practices and the social structure of capital. It shows how capital is socially structured around particular fields of reproduction, how the field-specific organisation of capital is implicated in the presence and absence of calculative and control practices, and how calculative templates and procedures, as symbolic systems, simultaneously perform interrelated but distinct functions of cognition, communication and domination. The paper advances the argument that calculative templates and procedures constitute a field-specific logic and they are the symbolic means through which structural properties of the social systems are cognised, communicated, reproduced and transformed into a set of practical dispositions that orient day-to-day work practices, domination and resistance.
KW - Bourdieu
KW - Calculative practices
KW - Absence ofaccounting
KW - Forms ofcapital
KW - Ethnography
KW - Gem mining
KW - Habitus
KW - Symbolic forms
KW - symblic power
KW - Sri Lanka
U2 - 10.1016/j.cpa.2010.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cpa.2010.10.001
M3 - Article
VL - 22
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Critical Perspectives On Accounting
JF - Critical Perspectives On Accounting
SN - 1045-2354
IS - 1
ER -