Analysing Political Action as Bricolage

By bricolage French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss meant the practical logic of agents involved in various everyday activities such as collecting medicinal plants, classifying animals, or composing myths. In this paper, I will explore bricolage as the logic of practice in relation to political action, it’s taken for granted practical and ideological assumptions, the common sense that drives it and the conceptual and non-conceptual instruments that are available to the agents. Such a view also corresponds to the experiences of professional politicians facing complex issues and heterogenous audiences, making use of academic theories but combining and modifying them according to the situation.