Editorial

Abstract

The most disputed frontier of all,' says Pierre Bourdieu, `is the one which separates the field of cultural production and the field of power.' In Bourdieu's analysis, those with the most disposition to challenge those who control capital and the state are artists and writers, who are involved in a continual struggle for autonomy against capitalism's compulsions and constraints in relation to human advancement. Cultural producers who take responsibility for the state of things, who repeatedly contest the dominant assumptions in the institutions in which they work, are also thereby seeking the fullest humanity