Bourdieu´s secret admirer in the Caucasus

Shanib´ s story allows Derluguian to add human dimension to his analysis of abstract notions like globalization, the end of communism, democratization, politics of ethnic identity, and terrorism. Drawing simultaneously on the work of Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, and, of course, Bourdieu, Derluguian presents a fr-reaching explanation of ethnic wars in the wake of Soviet collapse.