Why Biens symboliques / Symbolic Goods?

Whether they come from movie studios or artists’ workshops, the publishing industry or academic journals, symbolic goods are the subject of an ever-increasing number of social science studies. And yet this body of work has lacked a space for institutionalization, confrontation, and international exposure in the French-speaking world which would facilitate both measurement of progress made, and the proposal of original ideas of cross-pollination and new avenues of research. This is where our n...