This book is intended to be a theoretical contribution to the sociology of the body and the
rapidly expanding field of 'body studies'. In what follows I examine the changing status of the …

Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalised the academic world to the extent that
Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias's …

The primary goal of this article is to uncover the deep-seated conceptual affinities between
Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias. The second goal is to demonstrate that, in part because …

This paper concerns the relationship between ideas, values, psychological habitus and
behaviour on the one hand and ecological and economic structures on the other–or what …

In his theory of civilizing processes Elias drew attention, albeit obliquely, to the interweaving
connections between ecological, biological, social and psychological processes operating …

In the debate about growth and sustainability, the seesaw of environmental politics has
swung between Malthusian naysaying and Star Trekking optimism, and many nuanced …

This article examines the similarities and continuity between Enlightenment stadial
theorizing on the rise of civilization and the later views of Norbert Elias, specifically in his …

This paper seeks to develop understanding of both clinician-patient encounters within sport
and Elias's sociology of knowledge. Premised on a belief that there is a relatively high …

This article focuses on the environmentalist agenda in fitness cultures. The article is an initial
critical exploration and limited to an analysis of the key principles of political ecology and …

Synthesizing material derived from Norbert Elias, Pierre Bourdieu, Karl Polanyi, Max Weber,
Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner, in Part I the concept of “national character” is …