Loïc Wacquant has always been somewhat unusual. A well-known ethnographer and award-winning social theorist, he is a white Frenchman who has been teaching race relations at the University of ...

Over several months this year, the prominent sociologist Loïc Wacquant’s 2022 monograph The Invention of the “Underclass": A Study in the Politics of Knowledge has been the subject of a series of ...

Loïc Wacquant. L’administration Bush a trouvé un allié de poids dans une presse et une télévision dont la myopie et la servilité atteignent des sommets. Et pour cause : les grands médias américains ...

Loic Wacquant was a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago when he joined the Woodlawn Boys Club at 63rd and Woodlawn in 1988. He thought the club, a boxing gym that served the ...

Dans son nouvel ouvrage, le sociologue Loïc Wacquant s’est intéressé de près aux structures sociales du régime ségrégationniste en vigueur dans le sud des États-Unis jusqu’aux années 1960, afin de ...

Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI. "Body & Soul," by French sociologist Loïc Wacquant, is based on an exceptionally engaging premise: ...

Chicago? When he first walked into the dingy gym on Chicago’s South Side back in 1988, Loic Wacquant had never attended a boxing match and didn’t know a left hook from an uppercut. “As they say in the ...

In this challenging work, French sociologist (and MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellow) Wacquant engagingly writes about his participation in a previously foreign social milieu. For Wacquant, it is ...

U.C. Berkeley professor Loic Wacquant describes the rise of the punitive state, the real functions of prisons (their purpose is not, he argues, to fight crime), and the relationship between penal ...

1865: le 13e amendement abolit l'esclavage sur tout le territoire des Etats-Unis. 2008: Barack Obama est élu à la Maison Blanche. Le président américain prononce dans la foulée son célèbre discours ...

France Culture accueille avec plaisir la littérature, la bande dessinée, le théâtre et plus largement l'écriture et le récit sur ses ondes, du lundi 23 mars au dimanche 29 mars. Parmi les invités sur ...