Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis

John Flint is Professor of Town and Regional Planning and Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK. He was previously Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, UK.Ryan Powell is Reader in Urban Studies in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK, with research interests in the broad areas of urban marginality, urban governance and the stigmatisation of “outsider” groups.  His academic background and orientation is multidisciplinary and cuts across urban studies, sociology, geography, politics and criminology.

• 1. Introduction: Putting Wacquant to Work; John Flint and Ryan Powell.- 2. Class, Ethnicity and State in the Making of Urban Marginality; Loїc Wacquant.- Part 1 – Class: Gender, Families and Surveillance.- 3. ‘We live like prisoners in a camp’: Surveillance, Governance and Agency in a US Housing Project; Talja Blokland.- 4. Maternal Outcasts: Governing Vulnerable Mothers in Advanced Marginality; Larissa Povey.- 5. Exploring Family-Based Intervention Mechanisms as aForm of Statecraft; Emily Ball.- Part 2 – Ethnicity: Invisibilization, Informality and (Dis)identifications.- 6. Fluid Identifications in the Age of Advanced Marginality; Fabien Truong (translated by Lorenzo Posocco).- 7. Informality and the Neo-Ghetto: Modulating Power Through Roma Camps; Isabella Clough Marinaro.- 8. Housing, Ethnicity and Advanced Marginality in England; Ryan Powell and David Robinson.- Part 3 – State: Governing Marginality—Home, Street, Neighbourhood, City.- 9. All Leviathan’s Children: Race, Punishment and the (Re-)Making of the City; Rueben Miller.- 10. Social Work and Advanced Marginality; Ian Cummins.- 11. Bringing the Third Sector Back into Ghetto Studies: Roma Segregation and Civil Society Associations in Italy.- 12. Between Street and Shelter: Seclusion, Exclusion, and theNeutralization of Poverty.- Response.- 13. Dispossession and Dishonour in the Polarized Metropolis: Reactions and Recommendations; Loїc Wacquant.