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  • Race, Incarceration, and American Values

    by Glenn C. Loury, Pamela S. Karlan, Loic Wacquant, Tommie Shelby ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    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 percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate—at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising—is almost forty percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Punishing the Poor

    The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

    by Loïc Wacquant, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    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 of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Racial Domination

    by Loïc Wacquant ...
    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 and moral condemnation. In this erudite and incisive book based on a panoramic mining of comparative ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty

    by Loïc Wacquant ...
    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 order to draw from it positive lessons for the theory and practice of fieldwork. Thoughtless ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Bourdieu in the City

    Challenging Urban Theory

    by Loïc Wacquant ...
    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 mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social space (the distribution ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Invisible in Austin

    Life and Labor in an American City

    by Loïc Wacquant ...
    Austin, Texas, is renowned as a high-tech, fast-growing city for the young and creative, a cool place to live, and the scene of internationally famous events such as SXSW and Formula 1. But as in many American cities, poverty and penury are booming along with wealth and material abundance in contemporary Austin. Rich and poor residents lead increasingly separate lives as growing socioeconomic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Invention of the 'Underclass'

    A Study in the Politics of Knowledge

    by Loïc Wacquant ...
    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 and continental Europe and agitated the international study of exclusion in the postindustrial ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Commodifying Bodies

    Edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loïc Wacquant ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    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 partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Under the guise of ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Urban Outcasts

    A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality

    by Loïc 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 discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Territories of Poverty

    Rethinking North and South

    by Ananya Roy, Emma Shaw Crane, Jamie Peck, Bill Maurer, Rebecca Peters, Christina Gossman, Alyosha Goldstein, Nik Theodore, Erica Kohl-Arenas0, Hiba Bou Akar1, Stephanie Ullrich2, Luis Flores3, Anh-Thi Le4, Ju Hui Judy Han5, Vincanne Adams6, Stuart Schrader7, Loïc Wacquant8, Teddy Cruz9, Akhil Gupta0, Somaya Abdelgany1, Michael Katz2 ...
    Series series
    Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    by Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki ...
    Series series TransCanada
    The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors to Trans.Can.Lit address cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status ... Read more

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