{"title":"Loïc Wacquant","description":"\u003cp\u003eLoïc Wacquant's works offer a compelling exploration of urban sociology, social theory, and the dynamics of power within contemporary society. His writing critically examines issues of racial domination, marginalisation, and the shaping of social policy, often through the lens of influential thinkers like Pierre Bourdieu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect rigorous analyses that challenge conventional understandings of the penal state, social inequality, and the construction of the 'underclass'. These books provide valuable insights for those interested in education, social justice, and the complex interactions between society and institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"racial-domination-by-loic-wacquant-9781509563029","title":"Racial Domination","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRace 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 and historical research from around the globe, Loïc Wacquant pours cold analytical water on this hot topic and infuses it with epistemological clarity, conceptual precision, and empirical breadth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Gaston Bachelard, Max Weber, and Pierre Bourdieu, Wacquant first articulates a series of reframings, starting with dislodging the United States from its Archimedean position, in order to capture race-making as a form of symbolic violence. He then forges a set of novel concepts to rethink the nexus of racial classification and stratification: the continuum of ethnicity and race as disguised ethnicity, the diagonal of racialization and the pentad of ethnoracial domination, the checkerboard of violence and the dialectic of salience and consequentiality. This enables him to elaborate a meticulous critique of such fashionable notions as “structural racism” and “racial capitalism” that promise much but deliver little due to their semantic ambiguity and rhetorical malleability—notions that may even hamper the urgent fight against racial inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWacquant turns to deploying this conceptual framework to dissect two formidable institutions of ethnoracial rule in America: Jim Crow and the prison. He draws on ethnographies and historiographies of white domination in the postbellum South to construct a robust analytical concept of Jim Crow as caste terrorism erected in the late 19th century. He unravels the deadly symbiosis between the black hyperghetto and the carceral archipelago that has coproduced and entrenched the material and symbolic marginality of the African-American precariat in the metropolis of the late 20th century. Wacquant concludes with reflections on the politics of knowledge and pointers on the vexed question of the relationship between social epistemology and racial justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth sharply focused and wide ranging, synthetic yet controversial, \u003ci\u003eRacial Domination\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to students and scholars of race and ethnicity, power and inequality, and epistemology and theory across the social sciences and humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383968481516,"sku":"9781509563029","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12652543482725.jpg?v=1773391739"},{"product_id":"bourdieu-in-the-city-by-loic-wacquant-9781509556434","title":"Bourdieu in the City","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding 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 \u003ci\u003ethe trialectic of symbolic space\u003c\/i\u003e (the mental categories through which we perceive and organise the world), \u003ci\u003esocial space\u003c\/i\u003e (the distribution of capital in its different forms), and \u003ci\u003ephysical space\u003c\/i\u003e (the built environment). 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He uncovers the reasons behind the sudden irruption, accelerated circulation, and abrupt evaporation of the \"underclass\" from public debate and reflects on the implications for the social epistemology of urban marginality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat accounts for the “lemming effect” that drew a generation of scholars of race and poverty over a scientific cliff? What are the conditions for the formation and bursting of “conceptual speculative bubbles”? What is the role of think tanks, journalism, and politics in imposing “turnkey problematics” upon social researchers? What are the special quandaries posed by the naming of dispossessed and dishonoured populations in scientific discourse, and how can we reformulate the explosive question of “race” to avoid these troubles?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnswering these questions constitutes an exacting exercise in epistemic reflexivity in the tradition of Bachelard, Canguilhem, and Bourdieu, issuing a clarion call for social scientists to defend their intellectual autonomy against the encroachments of outside powers, be they state officials, the media, think tanks, or philanthropic organisations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCompact, meticulous, and forcefully argued, this study in the politics of social science knowledge will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, urban studies, ethnic studies, geography, intellectual history, the philosophy of science, and public policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599487746284,"sku":"9781509552184","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1e7055a0b198928f6d35bc90032b6b1e.jpg?v=1778022357"},{"product_id":"rethinking-the-penal-state-by-loic-wacquant-9781509573042","title":"Rethinking the Penal State","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 constitutive \u003ci\u003eduality of punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, which is at once material and symbolic, an instrument of class control and a means of communicating values, endlessly oscillating between rehabilitation and retribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanging from the birth of the workhouse prison in sixteenth-century Europe to the deployment of punishment in the colonies to the workaday world of prosecutors in a California criminal court, Wacquant reveals how the penal state curates crime, manages urban marginality, signals sovereignty, and manufactures legitimacy in the eyes of the population by restoring control over bodies out of order. 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