Loïc Wacquant

Loïc Wacquant ( born 1960 in Montpellier ) is a French sociologist.

Life

Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and also a researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne (CSE ) in Paris. He is one of the most important disciple of Pierre Bourdieu and has published with him and about him. His main research areas are urban inequalities, the American ghetto, the French banlieue, the prison and the racism.

In 1997 he was MacArthur Fellow.

Writings in German translation

• Pierre Bourdieu ( co-author): Reflexive anthropology. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt aM 1996 ( French 1992).
• Prisons of Poverty. UGC Publishing Company, 2000 ( French 1999). ISBN 978-3-89669-952-7.
• Life for the ring. Boxes in the American ghetto. UGC Publishing Company, 2003 ( French 2001). ISBN 978-3-89669-788-2.
• The Janus face of the ghetto and other essays, Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2006, ISBN 978-3764374617. .
• Punishing the poor: the neoliberal government of social insecurity to, Opladen: Budrich, 2009 ISBN 978-3-866491885. .