Loic Wacquant

Broschiertes Buch

Punishing the Poor

The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

Beschreibung

A sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a combination of penal sanction and welfare supervision.

Autor

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. He is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and recipient of the 2008 Lewis Coser Award of the American Sociological Association. His recent books include Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality, Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, and Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics. He is a co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography.

Produktdetails

• Politics, History, and Culture
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344223
• ISBN-10: 082234422X
• Artikelnr.: 25944608