مؤلف: Loic Wacquant

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to dis …

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to dis …

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the Amer …

Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions – especially reproductive medicine, trans …

Die Verdammten der Stadt führt uns mitten ins schwarze Ghetto im Inneren Chicagos und in die sich deindustrialisierende Banlieue in den Außenzonen von Paris und entdeckt, dass städtische Marginalität …

‘Dieses Buch ist nicht nur Kampfschrift, sondern auch eine fulminante wissenschaftliche Studie. […] ‘Die Bestrafung der Armen’ ist keine Polemik, sondern längst Realität. Das gezeigt zu haben, ist Wa …

Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions – especially reproductive medicine, trans …

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) war einer der produktivsten zeitgenössiÝ schen Denker der Soziologie. Seine internationale Anerkennung beschränkt sich jedoch nicht allein auf den Bereich der Wissenschaft …

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Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world’s population, now houses twenty-five perc …

At century’s close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban ‘un …

At century’s close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban ‘un …

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban the …

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban the …

En el último tercio del siglo XX, científicos sociales, analistas políticos, filántropos y políticos estadounidenses se obsesionaron con un nuevo grupo temible y misterioso que, según decían, asolaba …

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, fro …

The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation …

2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Supermax prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and f …