Urban outcasts : a comparative sociology of advanced marginality /
Wacquant, Loïc J. D.
Urban outcasts : a comparative sociology of advanced marginality / Loïc Wacquant. - Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008. - xii, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; pbk.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-329) and index.
[PART 1: From communal ghetto to hyperghetto] Ghetto, Banlieue, Favela, et caetera: tools for rethinking urban marginality. Prologue: An old problem in a new world? -- The return of the repressed: riots, 'race' and dualization in three advanced societies. -- The state and fate of the dark ghetto at century's close -- The cost of racial and class exclusion in 'Bronzeville' -- West side story: a high-insecurity ward in Chicago. [PART 2: Black belt: red belt] From conflation to comparison: how Banlieues and ghetto converge and contrast -- Stigma and division: from the core of Chicago to the margins of Paris -- Dangerous places: violence, isolation and the state. [PART 3: Looking ahead: urban marginality in the twenty-first century] The rise of advanced marginality: specifications and implications -- Logics of urban polarization from below. Postscript: Theory, history and politics in urban analysis.
9780745631240 074563124X 0745631258 (pbk.) 9780745631257 (pbk.) 9780745631240: £55.00
Marginality, Social--United States
Marginality, Social--France
Sociology, Urban--United States
Sociology, Urban--France
Urban communities
United Kingdom, Great Britain
United States of America, USA
307.76
Urban outcasts : a comparative sociology of advanced marginality / Loïc Wacquant. - Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008. - xii, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; pbk.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-329) and index.
[PART 1: From communal ghetto to hyperghetto] Ghetto, Banlieue, Favela, et caetera: tools for rethinking urban marginality. Prologue: An old problem in a new world? -- The return of the repressed: riots, 'race' and dualization in three advanced societies. -- The state and fate of the dark ghetto at century's close -- The cost of racial and class exclusion in 'Bronzeville' -- West side story: a high-insecurity ward in Chicago. [PART 2: Black belt: red belt] From conflation to comparison: how Banlieues and ghetto converge and contrast -- Stigma and division: from the core of Chicago to the margins of Paris -- Dangerous places: violence, isolation and the state. [PART 3: Looking ahead: urban marginality in the twenty-first century] The rise of advanced marginality: specifications and implications -- Logics of urban polarization from below. Postscript: Theory, history and politics in urban analysis.
9780745631240 074563124X 0745631258 (pbk.) 9780745631257 (pbk.) 9780745631240: £55.00
Marginality, Social--United States
Marginality, Social--France
Sociology, Urban--United States
Sociology, Urban--France
Urban communities
United Kingdom, Great Britain
United States of America, USA
307.76