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 ...

Cela commence par une histoire de salle de bains. Quand Loïc Wacquant, du haut de ses 63 ans et de son cursus exemplaire de sociologue (université de Chicago, prix McArthur, Harvard, enseignant à ...

Professeur à l’université de Berkeley (États-Unis), Loïc Wacquant publie Voyage au pays des boxeurs (1). L’ouvrage, qui mêle aux photographies et textes de l’auteur des propos de pugilistes recueillis ...

Loic J.D. Wacquant sits in a coffee shop here on a rainy evening, talking sadly about an upcoming trip to Chicago. The normally irrepressible French sociologist, one of the pre-eminent social ...

You get a slight, bespectacled and seemingly mild-mannered UC Berkeley professor named Loïc Wacquant, also known as "the boxing sociologist" to his peers and as fast-punching "Busy Louie" to his ...

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 ring I'd ...

Loïc Wacquant. – Eddie et Roy se préparent à l’affrontement, tournoi des Golden Gloves, 1990 J’ai atterri dans la salle de boxe de Woodlawn en août 1988 par défaut et par accident. Doctorant en ...

As well as serving an economic function, Loïc Wacquant argues that the transformation from welfare to mass incarceration and prison/workfare is an exercise in statecraft; with the disappearance of the ...

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 ...

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 ...