November 01, 2012 4:00 PM

Lecture by Loïc Wacquant, a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris.

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris. A MacArthur Foundation Fellow and recipient of the Lewis Coser Award of the American Sociological Association, his research spans urban relegation, ethnoracial domination, penalization, embodiment, and social theory and the politics of reason. His books include the trilogy Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (2008), Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2009), and Deadly Symbiosis: Race and the Rise of the Penal State (2013), as well as The Two Faces of the Ghetto (2013).

Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of social space and symbolic power, Professor Loïc Wacquant builds a bridge between his books Urban Outcasts and Punishing the Poor to bring into a single model the emergence of the “precariat” and shifts in public policies aimed at managing problem populations and territories in the dualizing city. He tracks the rise of a new regime of “advanced marginality”, and shows how states have responded to the objective and subjective social insecurity this regime has spawned through “punitive containment”.

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For more information on Loïc Wacquant, please visit http://loicwacquant.net/. 


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