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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

C’est une des pires atrocités de l’histoire américaine. Entre 1890 à 1960, de l’abolition de l’esclavage à l’avènement du mouvement pour les droits civiques, un régime ségrégationniste va s’exercer ...

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 ...

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 : “La sociologie est un art martial qui permet de se défendre contre le monde social” Pour le chercheur Loïc Wacquant, qui vient de sortir “Misère de l’ethnographie de la misère”, faire ...

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 ...

Entre littérature étrangère, bande dessinée, rencontres d’auteurs et créations radiophoniques, France Culture déploie une programmation foisonnante. Des Midis de Culture menés par Marie Labory aux ...

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 ...