Cultural consecration and legitimation-Modes, agents and processes

- This special issue offers new directions in the analysis of symbolic production with a particular focus on modes, agents and processes of consecration and legitimation.
- Highlight both traditional and new modes of cultural valorization.
- Acute awareness that transformations of fields of cultural production can alter the very act of value attribution.
- Shed new light on how in contemporary cultural fields the two dominant logics of recognition-commercial and artistic-are negotiated, and often brought into dialogue.