Loic Wacquant (University of California at Berkeley)

Urban Outcasts

A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780745631257
• ISBN-10: 0745631258
• Artikelnr.: 23164306

Autorenporträt

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne-Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Detailed Contents ix
Ghetto, Banlieue, Favela, et caetera: Tools for Rethinking Urban
Marginality 1
Prologue: An Old Problem in a New World? 13
1 The Return of the Repressed: Riots, 'Race' and Dualization in Three
Advanced Societies 15
Part I From Communal Ghetto to Hyperghetto 41
2 The State and Fate of the Dark Ghetto at Century's Close 43
3 The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in 'Bronzeville' 92
4 West Side Story: A High-Insecurity Ward in Chicago 119
Part II Black Belt, Red Belt 133
5 From Conflation to Comparison: How Banlieues and Ghetto Converge and
Contrast 135
6 Stigma and Division: From the Core of Chicago to the Margins of Paris 163
7 Dangerous Places: Violence, Isolation and the State 199
Part III Looking Ahead: Urban Marginality in the Twenty-First Century 227
8 The Rise of Advanced Marginality: Specifications and Implications 229
9 Logics of Urban Polarization from Below 257
Postscript: Theory, History and Politics in Urban Analysis 280
Acknowledgements and Sources 288
References 291
Index 330