Professor of International Social Theory.

Derek Robbins CV

Recent publications

• Sociology
• Politics
• Anthropology

• SO302 Exemplary Social Theory
• Years 2+PhD support seminars. Title (2006-7): “Theory and Practice: aspects of social and cultural theory in England, 1945 to the present”.

• The Group for the Study of International Social Science
• Derek Robbins - Bourdieu, education and society, Oxford, Bardwell Press, 2006
• A selected list of publications by Professor Derek Robbins is available from the institutional repository of the University of East London

Current Research

• 2005, Feb “Marcel Mauss: ‘On Prayer’. Some initial notes” for a day conference on Marcel Mauss’s “On Prayer” organized within the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) of the University of Cambridge
• 2005, October paper: “Kant et les Lumières anglaises” for a colloque of the Société d’Etudes Kantiennes de Langue Française in Naples entitled: ‘Kant et l’Europe des Lumières’.
• 2006, May Keynote speech: “The Conflict of the Faculties” to “Contexts, Fields, Positions: Situating Cultural Research”. A postgraduate conference at the University of East London, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
• 2006-7: Co-organizer (with Nirmal Puwar and Azzedine Haddour) of ESRC Research Seminar Series entitled: “Thinking with ‘Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria: Testimonies of Uprooting’”

Research Open Access Repository (ROAR@UEL)

A selected list of publications by Professor Derek Robbins is available from the institutional repository of the University of East London

• 2005, January “Bourdieu’s Practical Logic of the Social Sciences and its Implications for International, Cross-Cultural Understanding”, Editor’s Introduction to Pierre Bourdieu II, ed. D.M. Robbins (4-volume collection of articles in the Masters of Contemporary Social Thought series, London, New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, Sage). ISBN 0-7619-4315-3 (set of four volumes). Introduction: Vol 1, ix – xliv. + Reprint of Part 4 of Bourdieu and Culture (2000) in Vol. IV, 179-220
• 2005, March “The origins, early development and status of Bourdieu’s concept of ‘cultural capital’”, The British Journal of Sociology, 56, 1, 13-30.
• 2005, March “Une rencontre réflexive trans-nationale” in G.Mauger, ed., Rencontres avec Pierre Bourdieu, Editions du Croquant, Paris, 399-402. ISBN: 2-914968-13-2
• 2005, Nov. “Kant, Cassirer et Bourdieu” in J. Ferrari, M. Ruffing, R. Theis, & M. Vollet, eds., Kant et la France – Kant und Frankreich, collection “Europaea Memoria”, G. Olms-Verlag., pp. 377-387.
• Four contributions (on Bourdieu; habitus; cultural capital; and social reproduction) for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory, eds. A. Harrington, B.Marshall, & H.-P. Müller.
• 2006, June “Classification in French Social Theory”, in Problematizing Global Knowledge, General Editor; Mike Featherstone, Theory, Culture & Society, special issue, 23 (2-3), 42-4.
• 2006, July On Bourdieu, education and society, Oxford, Bardwell Press, ISBN 0-9548683-6-6
• 2006, Aug Contributions on: Education (158-160); Intelligence (302-3); Bourdieu (45-6); Credentialism (95-6); Postructuralism (461-2); Bernstein (37); Canguilhem (49); De-Schooling (123); Hidden Curriculum (270-1); Pedagogical Practices (436); and Situationists (554) in The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, ed. B. Turner, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13 978-0-521-54046-9
• 2006,Nov Editor of a Special number of Theory, Culture & Society on Bourdieu, and author of the Introduction: “A social critique of judgement”, Theory, Culture and Society, 23 (6), 1-24.
• 2007, August “Framing Bourdieu”. – chapter 8 in Tim Edwards, ed., Cultural Theory: Classical and Contemporary Positions,
  Los Angeles/London/New Delhi/ Singapore, Sage Publications, 141-157. ISBN 978-0-7619-4862-9; ISBN 978-0-7619-4863-6
• 2007, September. Editor. Yearbook I. PhD research in progress, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London.
• 2007, September. “For a socio-genetic understanding of trans-disciplinary research”, Introduction to Yearbook I (op cit), 9-15.
• 2007, September. “The Conflict of the Faculties”, Appendix II of Yearbook I (op cit), 99-110.
• 2007, September. Editor. Yearbook II. PhD research in progress, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London.
• 2007, September “The instituted capitals of intellectual disciplines: some exemplary socio-historical case-studies”, Introduction to Yearbook II (op cit), 9-18.
• 2007, Nov “Sociology as reflexive science: on Bourdieu’s project”, Theory, Culture and Society, 24 (5), 57-78.
• 2007, Nov “The Significance of Socio-genetic Understanding. Response to Fowler.”, Journal of Classical Sociology, 7 (3), 375-384.

Completed and awaiting publication

• My The Work of Pierre Bourdieu (1991) is due to be reissued electronically in 2001 by the Perseus Books Group.
• “Kant et les lumières anglaises” in G. Landolfi Petrone, ed., Kant et les Lumières européennes/Kant e l’Illuminismo europeo, Naples, Editions Liguori, pp. 157-164.
• Chapter on Bourdieu for volume 6 (Poststructuralism and Critical Theory: The Return of Master Thinkers) of a 8-volume History of Continental Philosophy to be published by Acumen Press under the general editorship of Alan Schrift.
• Chapter on Bourdieu’s ‘Theory of Practice’ for Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts, edited by Mike Grenfell, to be published in 2008 by Acumen Press.
• “Gazing at the colonial gaze: photographic observation and observations on photography based on a comparison between aspects of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron.”, to be published in 2008 in a special number of Sociological Review on “Postcolonial Bourdieu”.

Current contracts

• I am under contract to Sage to write a book with the title: The internationalisation of French social theory, 1950-2000.

• Chair, The Group for the Study of International Social Science, SSMaCS, UEL.
• Visiting Fellow, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London.
• Associate member of the Centre Gaston Bachelard, at the Université de Dijon.
• Member, British Centre for Durkheimian Studies.
• Member of the Société d'études kantiennes.
• Member of Espace pour des Sciences Sociales Européennes (ESSE), based at the Université de Genève.
• Member,UK Kant Society.

Keywords (research interest identifiers):

• Cross-cultural conceptual transfer
• Philosophy of social sciences
• 20th century French social theory
• Subaltern social understanding
• Kantianisms and neo-Kantianisms