{"product_id":"urban-outcasts-9780745631257","title":"Urban Outcasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a fantastic book that anyone interested in the historical trajectory of advanced capitalism and the marginality it breeds should read. The book's real strength is its fusion of political sociological theory, economic history and a rich, everyday ethnography ... Wacquant's political sociological method is the perfect complement to recent urban geographical scholarship that deconstructs the spatial political economy of 'neoliberal urbanism', opening up the impacts of these policies on the ground with surgical precision.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eArea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"This book should be mandatory reading for scholars, graduate students and advanced undergraduates interested in this subject ... this is an exciting book written by one of the most prominent urban sociologists today. It provides a useful concept for understanding urban poverty (i.e. advanced marginality), outlines a powerful argument for how advanced marginality varies in different countries and, most importantly, identifies the power of states to shape the structure of these places and the life-chances of their residents.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUrban Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"Leading Chicago sociology Loic Wacquant's comparative analysis of advanced marginality in the American ghetto and French banlieue is the best of a spate of works on urban poverty to be released recently.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSociology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"A thoroughly researched manifesto for an urban sociology that empowers the new precarious labour force of the post-industrial city.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRace and Class\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"[Wacquant] raises a series of valuable discussion points on methodology, scales of explanation, the value and challenges of comparative study, modes of writing, and the question of the author's positionality and its effects on the drama he is recounting - a rich harvest to garner from a single volume ... would make first-rate reading and discussion material for senior undergraduate and graduate seminars.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnals of the Association of American Geographers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eUrban Outcasts\u003c\/i\u003e is a majestic synthesis of research on urban marginality in advanced capitalist countries. It uncovers the common forces leading to a new kind of poverty on both sides of the Atlantic while forcefully demonstrating the distinctly different ways social exclusion operates in Europe and in America. This refreshingly new look at the nexus of race, class and space in the post-Fordist world is a major contribution to social theory and urban studies.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIvan Szelenyi, author of \u003ci\u003eCities After Socialism and Patterns of Exclusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"In this impressive book, Wacquant deploys his unparalleled knowledge of the black American ghetto and the French \u003ci\u003ebanlieue\u003c\/i\u003e to tackle a series of foundational questions about inequality and poverty. He shows us the variable ways in which these two conditions get constituted in two strands of capitalism and how 'territorial stigmatization' affects both the strategies of the poor and the public policies aimed at their reserved zones. The result is a provocative analysis of polarization from below and of the lived realities of urban marginality.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSaskia Sassen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Global City\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTerritory, Authority, Rights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetailed Contents ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGhetto, Banlieue, Favela, et caetera: Tools for Rethinking Urban Marginality 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: An Old Problem in a New World? 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Return of the Repressed: Riots, ‘Race’ and Dualization in Three Advanced Societies 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I From Communal Ghetto to Hyperghetto 41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The State and Fate of the Dark Ghetto at Century’s Close 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in ‘Bronzeville’ 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 West Side Story: A High-Insecurity Ward in Chicago 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Black Belt, Red Belt 133\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 From Conflation to Comparison: How Banlieues and Ghetto Converge and Contrast 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Stigma and Division: From the Core of Chicago to the Margins of Paris 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Dangerous Places: Violence, Isolation and the State 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Looking Ahead: Urban Marginality in the Twenty-First Century 227\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Rise of Advanced Marginality: Specifications and Implications 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Logics of Urban Polarization from Below 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostscript: Theory, History and Politics in Urban Analysis 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements and Sources 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 330\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865704247639,"sku":"9780745631257","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745631257.jpg?v=1722275185","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-outcasts-9780745631257","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}