Loïc Wacquant

Loïc Wacquant (* 1960 in Montpellier ) is a French sociologist who teaches as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and also conducts research at the Center de sociologie européenne (CSE) in Paris .

Loïc Wacquant 2009 in Berlin

Life

Wacquant passed his bachelor's degree at the Lycée Joffre in Montpellier in 1977 , after which he studied with William J. Wilson at the University of Chicago and took his master's degree in 1986. After a research stay on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia , he was promoted to PH.D. in Chicago in 1993. PhD. In 1997 he was a MacArthur Fellow and obtained a second doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Wacquant worked with Pierre Bourdieu for two decades , first as a student, then as a close collaborator. He taught at various universities as a visiting professor, most recently (2016/17) as Pitt Professor at the University of Cambridge .

He later processed his research as a participating observer among young boxers in a training center in the urban ghetto of Chicago in the book Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer ( Life for the ring. Boxing in the American ghetto ).

Wacquant's main research areas are urban inequalities, the American ghetto, the French banlieue , prison, and racism . He tries to open up Bourdieu's sociology for sociological urban research .

The scientist is also co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary research journal Ethnography and was a permanent essayist and columnist for Le Monde diplomatique from 1994 to 2004 . He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales .

Fonts in German translation

• Pierre Bourdieu (co-author): Reflexive Anthropology . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1996 (French 1992).
• Misery behind bars . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft , 2000 (French 1999). ISBN 978-3-89669-952-7 .
• Life for the ring. Boxing in the American ghetto . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft , 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: On the Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity , translated from the French by Hella Beister; Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Budrich UniPress , 2009. ISBN 978-3-8474-0121-6 .
• The damned of the city. A comparative sociology of advanced marginality , translated from the English by Alexander Frings. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-02679-0 (Review by Anja Schwanhäußer, Ghettos, Banlieues and Territoriales Stigma . In: sub \ urban , Volume 5, Issue 3, 176-180, 2017).

Awards

• 1997: MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant ($ 235,000 in prize money)
• 2009: Lewis Coser Award from the American Sociological Association

Web links

• Literature by and about Loïc Wacquant in the catalog of the German National Library
• Loïc Wacquant, personal website
• Loïc Wacquant at the University of California, Berkeley
• Loïc Wacquant at the University of Cambridge
• Loïc Wacquant, MacArthur Foundation website

supporting documents

1. ↑ Information on the vita is based, unless otherwise stated, on: MacArthur Fellows Program, Loic Wacquant, Sociologist, Class of 1997
2. ↑ Information from the University of California, Berkeley
3. ↑ Information from the University of Cambridge
4. ^ Current Honorary, Pitt and Bolivar Professors, University of Cambridge
5. Jump up ↑ Life for the Ring, Pearl Diver Reviews
6. ^ Loïc Wacquant: With Bourdieu in the city. Relevance, principles, applications , sub \ urban. magazine for critical urban research , issue 1/2, 2017.
7. ↑ Actses de la recherche en sciences sociales: Ours (French).
8. ^ University of Chicago Faculty Member, Recent Alumnus Win “Genius Grants,” University of Chicago, News Office, June 17, 1997
9. ↑ Coser Award 2009 , accessed on March 17, 2017.