Loïc WACQUANT is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européene, Paris. He is a past member of the Harvard Society of Fellows and has won numerous prizes and grants, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Fletcher Foundation Fellowship. He has published numerous works on urban marginality, embodiment, the penal state, ethnoracial domination, and social theory translated in a dozen languages. His recent books include Body and Soul: Notebooks of An Apprentice Boxer (2004), The Mystery of Ministry: Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics (editor, 2005), Das Janusgesicht des Ghettos und andere Essays (2006), Straf de armen: Het nieuwe beleid van de sociale onzekerheid (2007), and Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (2008). He was a regular contributor to Le Monde diplomatique from 1996 to 2004 and is a co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography.
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