Symbolic capital and linguistic practice in street culture

.................................................................................................3 Acknowledgments.....................................................................................4 Introduction.............................................................................................5 1. Setting, synthesis and objectives............................................................5 2. Method, ethics and social context..........................................................9 3. Street subcultures............................................................................ 19 4. Bourdieu, Foucault and language.........................................................38 References.............................................................................................55 Article 1 ‘“A magnet for curious adolescents”: The perceived dangers of an open drug scene’ International Journal of Drug Policy, 19 (6) 2008: 459-466 (With W. Pedersen). Article 2 ‘Black drug dealers in a white welfare state. Cannabis dealing and street capital in Norway’ British Journal of Criminology, 48(5) 2008: 604-619. Article 3 ‘Street capital. Ethnicity and violence on the streets of Oslo’ Theoretical Criminology, 12(2) 2008: 153-171. Article 4 ‘A narrative search for respect’ Deviant Behavior, 2009, forthcoming Article 5 ‘Codes of the Street. The `bilingual' discursive practice of street drug dealers in Norway’ Revised version, British Journal of Sociology, 2009, forthcoming.