Description: Welcome to the personal homepage of Loïc Wacquant. I am a sociologist who tries to wed epistemology, ethnography, social theory, and comparison to capture the carnality of social existence; the structure, dynamics, and experience of urban marginality; the making of the penal state and the rise of neoliberalism; the specificity of ethnoracial domination and the…
Loïc Wacquant
Welcome to the personal homepage of Loïc Wacquant. I am a sociologist who tries to wed epistemology, ethnography, social theory, and comparison to capture the carnality of social existence; the structure, dynamics, and experience of urban marginality; the making of the penal state and the rise of neoliberalism; the specificity of ethnoracial domination and the predicament of the precariat. You will find on this site guides to my books, a selection of articles with PDFs roughly organized by theme; a sample o
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