WACQUANT J.D. LOIC

(P/B) PUNISHING THE POOR
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 behaviorism. This paternalist program of penalization of poverty aims to curb the urban disorders wrought by economic deregulation and to impose p...
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(P/B) URBAN OUTCASTS
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, Lo?c Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the 1960s is due not to the emergence of an 'underclass', but to the joint withdrawal of market and state fostered by public policies of racial separati...
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ΟΙ ΦΥΛΑΚΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΜΙΖΕΡΙΑΣ
Καταγγελία της «βίας των πόλεων», εντατικός έλεγχος των λεγόμενων «ευαίσθητων» προαστίων, αυξημένη καταστολή της παραβατικότητας των νέων και παρενοχλήσεις των αστέγων, απαγορεύσεις κυκλοφορίας και «μηδενική ανοχή», συνεχής διόγκωση του σωφρονιζόμενου πληθυσμού, τιμωρητική επίβλεψη των δικαιούχων επιδομάτων: παντού στην Ευρώπη γίνεται αισθητός ο πειρασμός να χρησιμοποιηθούν ο αστυνομικός και ο σωφρονιστικός θεσμός ως εφαλτήριο για να τιθασευτούν οι αναταραχές που προκαλούν η μαζική ανεργία, η επιβολή της προσωρινής απασχόλησης και η συρρίκ...
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(P/B) AN INVITATION TO REFLEXIVE SOCIOLOGY
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 overview, providing interpretative keys to the internal logic of Bourdieu's work by explicating thematic and methodological principles underlying his work. Firstly Loic Wacquant provides a clear and systematic account of the main themes of Bourdieu's...
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(P/B) AN INVITATION TO REFLEXIVE SOCIOLOGY
Over the last three decades, the French sociologist 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 influence of his work, no single introduction to his wide-ranging oeuvre is available. This book, intended for an English-speaking audience, offers a systematic and accessible overview, providing interpretive keys to the internal logic of Bourdieu's work by explicating thematic and methodological principles underlying his work. The structure of Bo...
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