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Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, Associate Researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP) in Paris
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The Two Faces of the Ghetto
Constructing a Sociological Concept
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2005/5 No 160)
Habitus as the Object and Tool of Investigation
Reflections on the Making of a Boxer
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2010/4 No 184)
The Global Security Tornado: Neoliberalism and Punishment at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
In Mouvements (2010/3 No 63)
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The rise and fall of ready-made concepts
Reflections on the invention of the urban “underclass”
In La Pensée (2023/1 No 413)
What’s wrong with the RAT’S? Interest, rationality and culture in American sociology
- By Craig Calhoun
- and Loïc Wacquant
In Mauss international (2021/1 No 1)
For a sociology of flesh and blood
Translation by Michaël Busset and Michaël Cordey, reviewed by the author
In Terrains & travaux (2015/1 No 26)
Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto
In Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie (2011/2 No 12)
The Global Security Tornado: Neoliberalism and Punishment at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
In Mouvements (2010/3 No 63)
Habitus as the Object and Tool of Investigation
Reflections on the Making of a Boxer
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2010/4 No 184)
The Fabric of the Neoliberal State
“Workfare,” “Prisonfare,” and Social Insecurity
In Civilisations (2010/1 59-1)
The Business of a Flesh-Merchant: Passion, Power, and Profit in the Economy of Boxing
In Actuel Marx (2007/1 No 41)
Response to the Reviews of Parias urbains: Ghetto, banlieues, État
In Hérodote (2006/4 No 123)
The Two Faces of the Ghetto
Constructing a Sociological Concept
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2005/5 No 160)
A Black City within a White City. US Ghettos Revisited
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2005/5 No 160)
A Catalyst Event: On the Subject of September 11
In Mouvements (2003/5 No 30)
A Fatal Symbiosis
When Ghettos and Prisons are Alike
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2001/4 No 139)
America as a Self-fulfilling Prophecy
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2001/4 No 139)
