Loic J. D. Wacquant, born in 1960, is a French sociologist who serves as professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarship examines the relationship between urban poverty and mass incarceration in the United States, and he is best known for describing what he calls a deadly symbiosis between the ghetto and the prison, arguing that the two institutions function together to contain and manage populations that have become economically marginal within contemporary American cities.
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Defining ContributionSociologist studying comparative urban poverty, ethnoracial domination and the penal state 2 Notable WorkPrisons of Poverty (Les Prisons de la misere, 1999) 2 Connections
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Loic Wacquant's Punishing the Poor connects mass incarceration to neoliberal economic policy and the punitive management of urban poverty.
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1. Biography - Loïc Wacquant (official site)
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Born and raised in Southern France, Wacquant was educated in Montpellier, Paris, Chapel Hill and Chicago
2. Loïc Wacquant - MacArthur Foundation
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Loïc Wacquant is a sociologist exploring the changing forms and conditions of urban poverty in Europe and America.
list of publications
Les Prisons de le Misère (1999) / Prisons of Poverty (2001)
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