Bourdieu in the City

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Challenging Urban Theory

By Loïc Wacquant

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Loïc Wacquant reinterprets Pierre Bourdieu's sociology to offer a fresh urban theory through three interlinked concepts: the trialectic of symbolic space (mental frameworks), social space (distribution of capital), and physical space (urban environment). This approach energises and challenges traditional urban studies by applying Bourdieu’s topological sociology to contemporary city life, focusing on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in postindustrial metropolises.

Bourdieu in the City serves as a compact, incisive resource for students and scholars across sociology, anthropology, geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, and social theory.
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Ideal for scholars, students, and professionals in sociology, urban studies, anthropology, geography, urban planning, architecture, and social theory seeking an advanced, critical perspective on urban inequality and marginality.

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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 organise the world), social space (the distribution of capital in its different forms), and physical space (the built environment). On this reading, Bourdieu's topological sociology gives us the tools both to energise and also to challenge the canon of urban studies and to redraw their theoretical landscape.

Compact and incisive, Bourdieu in the City will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, and social theory.

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Praised by Neil Brenner of the University of Chicago as a "captivating" and "brilliantly creative" synthesis of urban social science and Bourdieu’s theory, the book offers incisive insights into neoliberal urban marginality and power relations. Professor Talja Blokland from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin highlights Wacquant’s careful conceptual analysis and his contribution to sharpening theoretical and methodological perspectives on urban inequality. It is considered a must-read and a significant milestone in urban scholarship.

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ISBN: 9781509556434

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 January 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 499g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Research associate at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. His books are translated in twenty languages and include Urban Outcasts (2008) and The Invention of the "Underclass" (2022), both also published by Polity.

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