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Prisons of Poverty
Häftad, 2009
366 kr
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An international best seller dissects the globalization of penal policies “made in U.S.A.” as part of the spread of neoliberalismIn the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated in the infamous “squeegee man.” …
Bourdieu in the City
Challenging Urban Theory
Häftad, 2023
256 kr
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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 theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the …
Urban Outcasts
A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality
Häftad, 2007
256 kr
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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 discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, …
Rethinking the Penal State
Häftad, 2026
287 kr
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In this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loïc Wacquant combines social theory, comparative history and structural ethnography to probe criminal punishment as a core function of the state. Extending Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of bureaucratic field and symbolic power, he captures the …
Invention of the 'Underclass'
A Study in the Politics of Knowledge
Häftad, 2022
231 kr
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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 “underclass.” Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic imagery were exported to the United Kingdom …
Punishing the Poor
The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Häftad, 2009
325 kr
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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 of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction …
Body & Soul
Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer
Häftad, 2007
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347 kr
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When French sociologist Loïc Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional. He learned the …
Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
Av Pierre Bourdieu, Loïc Wacquant
Häftad, 1992
329 kr
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Over the last three decades, Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the his influence, no single introduction to his wide-ranging work is available. This book offers a systematic and accessible …
The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty
Häftad, 2025
469 kr
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Recapitulating the three ages of urban ethnography born in Chicago a century ago, this book puts into historical and analytical perspective a controversy over the ethnography of the nexus of race, class, and morality in and around the black American ghetto in the age of triumphant neoliberalism, in …
Body & Soul
Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Expanded Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2022
345 kr
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When French sociologist Loïc Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional. He learned the …
Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty
E-bok, 2025
272 kr
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Recapitulating the three ages of urban ethnography born in Chicago a century ago, this book puts into historical and analytical perspective a controversy over the ethnography of the nexus of race, class, and morality in and around the black American ghetto in the age of triumphant neoliberalism, in …
Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty
E-bok, 2025
296 kr
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Recapitulating the three ages of urban ethnography born in Chicago a century ago, this book puts into historical and analytical perspective a controversy over the ethnography of the nexus of race, class, and morality in and around the black American ghetto in the age of triumphant neoliberalism, in …
Urban Outcasts
A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality
Inbunden, 2007
993 kr
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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 discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, …
Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics
The Mystery of Ministry
Inbunden, 2005
892 kr
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Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work is of profound significance for rethinking democracy. This original volume presents and develops Bourdieu’s distinctive contribution to the theory and practice of democratic politics. …
Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics
The Mystery of Ministry
Häftad, 2005
308 kr
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Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work is of profound significance for rethinking democracy. This original volume presents and develops Bourdieu’s distinctive contribution to the theory and practice of democratic politics. …
Commodifying Bodies
Av Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loïc Wacquant
Inbunden, 2002
3516 kr
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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, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant …
Commodifying Bodies
Av Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loïc Wacquant
Häftad, 2002
1377 kr
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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, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant …
Punishing the Poor
The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
E-bok, 2009
505 kr
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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 of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction …
Commodifying Bodies
Av Loic Wacquant, Nancy Scheper-Hughes
E-bok, 2002
587 kr
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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, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant …
Two Faces of the Ghetto
Inbunden, 2027
796 kr
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The "ghetto" has become a keyword of our age: a synonym for urban exclusion, poverty, and violence. It evokes images of dread and dissolution, it stokes the fear of racialized difference, and it conjures up the specter of internal secession. And yet the ghetto is none of these things, separately or …
Two Faces of the Ghetto
Häftad, 2027
273 kr
Kommande
The "ghetto" has become a keyword of our age: a synonym for urban exclusion, poverty, and violence. It evokes images of dread and dissolution, it stokes the fear of racialized difference, and it conjures up the specter of internal secession. And yet the ghetto is none of these things, separately or …
Invention of the 'Underclass'
A Study in the Politics of Knowledge
Inbunden, 2022
911 kr
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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 “underclass.” Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic imagery were exported to the United Kingdom …
Bourdieu in the City
Challenging Urban Theory
Inbunden, 2023
743 kr
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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 theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the …
Racial Domination
Häftad, 2024
298 kr
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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, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as a term of civic denunciation …
Rethinking the Penal State
Inbunden, 2026
953 kr
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In this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loïc Wacquant combines social theory, comparative history and structural ethnography to probe criminal punishment as a core function of the state. Extending Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of bureaucratic field and symbolic power, he captures the …
Die Verdammten der Stadt
Eine vergleichende Soziologie fortgeschrittener Marginalität
Häftad, 2017
616 kr
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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 nicht überall gleich ist. Auf Grundlage von Feld-, statistischen und historischen Daten zeigt …
Die Verdammten der Stadt
Eine vergleichende Soziologie fortgeschrittener Marginalität
E-bok, 2017
638 kr
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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 nicht überall gleich ist. Auf Grundlage von Feld-, statistischen und historischen Daten zeigt …
Punishing the Poor
The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Inbunden, 2009
1294 kr
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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 of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction …
