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The Invention of the 'Underclass' by Loic Wacquant
Booksplease Price: £56.13At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban... -
Prisons of Poverty by Loic Wacquant
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated in the infamous "squeegee man." New York City soon became a... -
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer by Loic Wacquant 9780195168358
RRP: £107.50Booksplease Price: £80.61When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for... -
Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality: Critically Exploring the Work of Loic Wacquant by 9781447300014
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.10This book represents the first full-length critical and interdisciplinary assessment of Loic Wacquant's work in English. Wacquant's challenging critique of the neo-liberal government of crime and the... -
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loic Wacquant
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation... -
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer by Loic Wacquant 9780195305623
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.19When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for... -
Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics: The Mystery of Ministry by Loic Wacquant 9780745634883
Booksplease Price: £19.71Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work is of profound significance for rethinking democracy. This original volume presents... -
Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics: The Mystery of Ministry by Loic Wacquant 9780745634876
Booksplease Price: £56.67Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work is of profound significance for rethinking democracy. This original volume presents... -
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Revised and Updated by Loic Wacquant 9780190465698
Booksplease Price: £24.88When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for... -
The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the Politics of Knowledge Loic Wacquant (University of California at Berkeley) 9781509552184
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.19At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban... -
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loic Wacquant 9780822344049 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £14.37The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation... -
Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality Loic Wacquant (University of California at Berkeley) 9780745631257
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.90Breaking 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... -
The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty Loïc Wacquant 9780197804001
Booksplease Price: £66.73Recapitulating the three ages of urban ethnography born in Chicago a century ago, this book puts into historical and analytical perspective a controversy over the ethnography of the nexus of race,... -
Racial Domination Loïc Wacquant 9781509563012
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £69.92Race 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,... -
Racial Domination by Loïc Wacquant 9781509563029
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.35Race 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,... -
The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty Loïc Wacquant 9780197804018
Booksplease Price: £22.48Recapitulating the three ages of urban ethnography born in Chicago a century ago, this book puts into historical and analytical perspective a controversy over the ethnography of the nexus of race,... -
Rethinking the Penal State Loïc Wacquant 9781509573035
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £61.76In this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loic Wacquant combines social theory, comparative history and structural ethnography to probe criminal punishment as a core function of the state... -
Rethinking the Penal State Loïc Wacquant 9781509573042
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74In this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loic Wacquant combines social theory, comparative history and structural ethnography to probe criminal punishment as a core function of the state... -
Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality: Critically Exploring the Work of Loic Wacquant Peter Squires (School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton) 9781447300007
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £33.78This book represents the first full-length critical and interdisciplinary assessment of Loic Wacquant's work in English. Wacquant's challenging critique of the neo-liberal government of crime and the... -
Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work by John Flint 9783030162214
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.76Loic Wacquant is one of the most influential sociological theorists of the contemporary era with his research and writings resonating widely across the social sciences. This edited collection... -
Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work by John Flint 9783030162245
Booksplease Price: £75.80Loic Wacquant is one of the most influential sociological theorists of the contemporary era with his research and writings resonating widely across the social sciences. This edited collection... -
Incarceration and Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures by Melissa McCarthy 9780719081811
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.23A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. What do human rights concerns dictate about... -
Incarceration and Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures by Melissa McCarthy 9780719081804
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. What do human rights concerns dictate about... -
Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body: Theory, Method and Praxis by Michael D. Giardina 9780367247553
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way we research physical culture, most evidently in the study of sport. This book brings together... -
Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics Alessandro De Giorgi 9781138253957
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this respect, each 'mode of production'... -
Boxing, Masculinity and Identity: The 'I' of the Tiger Kath Woodward (The Open University, UK) 9780415367714
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £60.65Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent... -
Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory by Wacquant
Booksplease Price: £18.06Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loic Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban... -
Globalization and the State: Sociological Perspectives on the State of the State by W. Schinkel 9780230574052
Booksplease Price: £46.28Internationally-renowned scholars, including Zygmunt Bauman, Saskia Sassen, Loic Wacquant and Craig Calhoun come together in this exciting new collection to debate the role of the nation state in an... -
Bourdieu's Theory of Social Fields: Concepts and Applications Mathieu Hilgers 9781138921047
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Bourdieu's theory of social fields is one of his key contributions to social sciences and humanities. However, it has never been subjected to genuine critical examination. This book fills that gap... -
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 9780745610337
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.99Over the last three decades, Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the his influence, no single... -
Alternative Criminologies Pat Carlen (University of Leicester, UK) 9781138067431
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Alternative Criminologies celebrates a kaleidoscopic process of permanent critique and a diversity of social and scientific knowledges. It examines complex and global crime issues in light of the... -
Sport, Power, and Society: Institutions and Practices: A Reader by David Karen
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £60.95This comprehensive collection examines the culture of sport and its relationship with various social institutions. The editors first provide a broad overview of the field and describe the ways in... -
Neoliberalism and Punishment Ignacio González-Sánchez 9781032522098
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Exploring the expansion of the penal system in Spain during the first 40 years of democracy, this book puts forward the importance of studying punishment from a sociological perspective and examines... -
Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants by Hans-Christian Petersen
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £22.92What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt... -
Globalization and the New City: Migrants, Minorities and Urban Transformations in Comparative Perspective by M. Cross 9780333802601
Booksplease Price: £90.56The book presents the views of leading experts on both sides of the Atlantic on the changes to the social structure of cities as a result of recent migration. The contributors consider the link... -
Blacks Behind Bars: African-Americans, Policing, and the Prison Boom by Ray Von Robertson 9781626611665
Booksplease Price: £76.80Blacks Behind Bars presents an impassioned yet reasoned examination of how the burgeoning prison boom and problematic forms of policing marginalize African-Americans in American society. The... -
Crime, Critique and Utopia by Margaret Malloch 9781137009791
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the application of a utopian method for uncovering the potential within... -
Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political by Mohsen Mostafavi 9783037783818
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.54Is democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities, houses, streets, and public spaces - the borders, the neighborhoods, the monuments - bearers of our values? In a world of... -
Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment: The Production and Contestation of Territorial Stigma Paul Kirkness (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany.) 9780367218829
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94The concept of territorial stigma, as developed in large part by the urban sociologist Loic Wacquant, contends that certain groups of people are devalued, discredited and tainted by the reputation of... -
Fighting Scholars: Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports by Raul Sanchez Garcia 9781783083466
Booksplease Price: £25.71'Fighting Scholars' offers the first book-length overview of the ethnographic study of martial arts and combat sports. The book's main claim is that such activities represent privileged grounds to...