The Return of the Repressed: on the riots roiling the French banlieues



Parias urbains.Ghetto, banlieues, État

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Pierre Bourdieu in the Field
A special issue of Ethnography

In Memoriam DeeDee Armour
Legendary Boxing Trainer

Loïc Wacquant



Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Institute for Legal Research, Boalt Law School, University of California at Berkeley, where he is affiliated with the Program in Medical Anthropology, the Global Metropolitan Studies Program, and the Center for Urban Ethnography. He is also Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne in Paris.

Born and raised in Southern France, Wacquant was educated in Montpellier, Paris, and Chicago, where he received his Ph.D in Sociology in 1993 after earlier graduate studies in industrial economics and a research stint in the South Pacific island of New Caledonia. His interests include comparative urban inequality and marginality, ethnoracial domination, carceral institutions and penal policy as instruments for managing dispossessed and dishonored groups, violence and the body, intellectuals and the politics of reason in the neoliberal age, and classical and contemporary social theory. A past member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University (1990-1993) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1997-2002), he has been a visiting professor in Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, and New York City, and invited as a Fellow to the Russell Sage Foundation, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.

Wacquant is the author of over one hundred scholarly articles published in journals of sociology, anthropology, criminology, social theory, social policy, philosophy, and urban and cultural studies, and translated in a dozen languages. Among his books are An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology (1992, with Pierre Bourdieu, translated in 19 languages), Prisons of Poverty (1999, translated in 14 languages), Body and Soul: Ethnographic Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (2000, translated in 6 languages), Los Parias Urbanos (2001, translated in three languages), The Mystery of Ministry: Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics (published in five languages in 2005), Das Janusgesicht des Ghettos und andere Essays (2006), and Deadly Symbiosis: Race and the Rise of Neoliberal Penality (forthcoming with Polity Press in 2006).

Wacquant has conducted fieldwork in the colonial island of New Caledonia, on the South Side of Chicago, and in the jails of big cities in the United States, France, and Brazil. He has acted as consultant on issues of urban poverty, violence, ethnicity, and crime to central and local governments, unions, and the courts in France, Argentina, Brazil, Norway, Sweden, and to the OECD. He is co-founder and co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography, and was a regular contributor to Le Monde diplomatique from 1996 to 2004.

Wacquant recently completed a special thematic issue of Ethnography on "Taking Bourdieu into the Field" (vol. 5, no 4, December 2004); an anthology of the works of social science's most famous nephew, Marcel Mauss on Belief, Exchange, and Social Transformation (forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press); a study of the mutation of the penal state in advanced society entitled Punishing the Poor: The New Government of Social Insecurity (to appear in multiple languages in 2006); and the English translation of his first book on prizefighting, Body and Soul (Oxford University Press, 2004). He is currently working on the sequel, The Passion of the Pugilist, an analysis of the dialectic of desire and domination in which he articulates an argument for "carnal sociology," and a monograph on the construction of the object in urban ethnography. He is also preparing an anti-reader on the works of Pierre Bourdieu entitled Practice and Symbolic Power: The Essential Bourdieu. His next project is a comparative historical sociology of forms and mechanisms of racial domination over four centuries and three continents provisionally entitled Peculiar Institutions.


IN THE U.S.
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Research Interests


Incarnation, the penal state, race as a principle of social vision and division, comparative urban inequality and marginality, extreme social systems, intellectuals and the politics of reason, classical and contemporary social theory.

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Books


Das Janusgesicht des Ghettos
und andere Essays

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The Mystery of Ministry:
Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics

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Body and Soul:
Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer

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* Preface, "The Taste and Ache of Action"

Simbiosi Mortale:
Neoliberalismo e politica penale

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Repensar os Estados Unidos:
Por uma sociologia do superpoder

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  • Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007, 352p.
    • French translation: Parias urbains. Ghetto, banlieues, État. Paris: La Découverte, 2006, 336p.
    • Catalan translation: Pàries urbans. Gueto, banlieues, Estat,. Barcelona, Edicions de 1984, 2007, 388p.
    • Spanish: Los Condenados de la ciudad. Gueto, peripherias, Estado. Buenos Aires, Mexico, Madrid: Siglo 21, 2007, 373p.
    • Japanese: Tokyo, Shinyousha, forthcoming in 2008.
    • Turkish: Istambul, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, forthcoming in 2008.
    • Dutch: Antwerp, EPO, forthcoming in 2008.
    • German: Die Verdamnte der Stadt, Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich Verlag, forthcoming in 2008.


  • Das Janusgesicht des Ghettos und andere Essays.. Basel and Berlin: Birkhäuser Verlag, "Baumwelt Fundamente" Series, 2006, 220p.
    • English original: The Two Faces of the Ghetto and Other Essays. New York and Oxford: University Press, forthcoming in 2008.
    • Portuguese translation: As duas faces do gueto e outros ensaios.. São Paulo: Boitempo Editorial, 2007.
    • Spanish: Las dos caras de un gueto y outros ensayos. Buenos Aires, Mexico, Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2006.
    • French: Les Deux visages du ghetto. Paris: La Découverte, forthcoming in 2008
    • Turkish translation: Istambul, Bogaziçi Üniversitesi Yayinevi, forthcoming in 2008.
    • Japanese: Tokyo, Shinyousha, forthcoming in 2008.
  • Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics: The Mystery of Ministry (edited, translated, and with an introduction). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2005, 224p.
    • Brazilian translation: O Mistério do ministério. Pierre Bourdieu e a politica democrática. Rio de Janeiro: Revan, 2005, 230p.
    • Spanish: El misterio del ministerio. Pierre Bourdieu y la política democrática. Barcelona, Mexico, Santiago, Buenos Aires: Gedisa, 2005, 232p
    • Italian: Le astuzie del potere. Pierre Bourdieu e la politica democratica. Roma: Ombre Corte, 2005, 180p.
    • Portuguese: Porto: Affrontamento, 2007.
    • Slovenian: Ljubljana: Molitor, 2007.
    • Bulgarian: Sofia: Critique and Humanism, 2007.
    • Arabic: Casablanca: Toubkal, 2006.
    • Korean: Seoul, Greenbee Publishing Co., forthcoming in 2007.
    • Turkish: Istambul, Papirus Yayinevi, forthcoming in 2007.
    • German: Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich Verlag, forthcoming in 2008.
    • Japanese: Tokyo, Fujiwara Shoten, forthcoming in 2008.
  • Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 288p.
    • French: Corps et âme. Carnets ethnographiques d’un apprenti boxeur. Marseilles and Montréal: Agone, Comeau & Nadeau, 2000, 270p. Second expanded edition, 2002, 282p.
    • Brazilian: Corpo e alma. Notas etnográficas de um apprendiz de boxe, Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 2002, 296p.
    • Italian: Anima e corpo. La fabbrica dei pugilisti nei ghetti neri d'America, Roma: Derive Approdi, 2002, 240p.
    • German: Leben für den Ring. Boxen im amerikanischen Ghetto. Konstanz: UVK Universitätsverlag, 2003, 293p.
    • Spanish: Entre las cuerdas. Cuadernos etnográficos de un aprendiz de boxeador. Madrid: Allianza, 2004, 251p.
    • Catalan: Cos i ànima. Quaderns etnogràfics d'un aprenent de boxejador. Barcelona: Edicions de 1984, 2004, 308p.
    • Swedish: Kropp och själ. Stockholm: Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 2005.
  • (editor), Repensar os Estados Unidos. Campinas: Papirus, 2003, 220p.
    • Spanish translation: Repensar los Estados Unidos. Por una sociología del hiperpoder. Barcelona: Edición Anthropos, 2005, 239p.
  • Simbiosi mortale. Neoliberalismo e politica penale. Verona: Ombre Corte, 2002, 138p.
  • (co-editor, with Nancy Scheper-Hughes) Commodifying Bodies. London and Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 2002, 178p.
    • Italian translation: Corpi in vendita. Interi o a pezza , Verona: Ombre Corte, 2004, 170p.
    • Spanish: Cuerpos en venta: Enteros o en partes, Barcelona: Anthropos, 2007.
  • Los Parias Urbanos. Presentation by Javier Auyero. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Manantial, 2001, 202p.
  • Punir os pobres. A nova gestâo da miséria nos Estados Unidos. Rio de Janeiro: Freitas Bastos Editora (Coleçâo Pensamento Criminológico), 157p., 2001. 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro, Editora Revan, 2004, 168p.
  • Os condenados da cidade. Preface by Luiz César de Queiroz Ribeiro: Rio de Janeiro: Revan Editora, 2001, 198p.
    • Expanded English edition: Urban Outcasts: Toward a Sociology of Advanced Marginality. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, forthcoming in 2006.
  • Les Prisons de la misère. Paris: Raisons d’agir Editions/Editions du Seuil, 1999, 192p.
  • La Misère du monde (with Pierre Bourdieu et al.). Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1993, 955p.
  • An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology (with Pierre Bourdieu). Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1992, 332p.

Latest Papers

  •   "Castigar a los parias urbanos." Oficios Terrestres 17 (La Plata), 2005: 10-14.
    • Reprinted as “Castigar a los parias urbanos,” Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología (Caracás), 2, 2006, pp. 59-66.
  • "Nothing Beyond Its Reach." Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 51, n. 49 (12 August 2005), "Sociologists on Sociology," Special feature on the Centennial of the American Sociological Association : B14.
  • "Following Pierre Bourdieu into the Field." Ethnography 5-4 (December 2004): 387-414.
    • Portuguese translation: “Seguindo Pierre Bourdieu no terreno,” Cadernos de ciências socíais (Lisboa), Special issue on “Génese e legado da obra de Pierre Bourdieu,” 24 (April): 69-96; also as “Seguindo Pierre Bourdieu no campo,” Revista de sociologia e política, Special issue on “Bourdieu no campo,” 26-2, June 2006, pp. 13-29.
    • “Para ubicar a Bourdieu en el campo,” forthcoming in Isabel Jiménez (ed.), Ensayos Sobre Pierre Bourdieu y su Obra II, México, UNAM/Plaza y Valdés Editores, 2006.
  • "Race as Civic Felony." International Social Science Journal 181 (Spring 2005, also available in French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian): 127-142.
    • French translation: idem, 183, March 2005; Arabic: idem, pp. 187-211; Chinese: idem, pp. 127-141
    • Portuguese translation: “A raça como crime cívico,” Sociologia. Problemas e práticas (Lisboa), 15, Winter 2005, pp. 9-41.
  • "Symbolic Power and Democratic Practice." Pp. 1-9 in The Mystery of Ministry: Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995. Translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Swedish, Arabic, Bulgarian, and Slovenian editions of that book.
  • "Decivilizing and Demonizing: Remaking the Black American Ghetto." Pp. 95-121 in Steven Loyal and Stephen Quilley (eds.), The Sociology of Norbert Elias, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
    • Swedish translation: “Avcivilisering och och demonisering: den sociala och symboliska förändringen av det svarta gettot, och Elias i det mörka gettot,” in Masoud Kamali (ed.), Den segregerande integrationen. Om social sammanhållning och dess hinder, Stockholm, Fritzes, 2006, pp. 29-62.
    • German: “Entzivilisierung une Dämonisierung: die Neuauflage des Ghettos des schwarzen Amerika,” Derive. Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung, 28, Summer 2007, pp. 20-29.
    • Italian translation forthcoming in Annuario Antropologia (Rome), Winter 2007.
  • "Comment sortir du piège sécuritaire." Contradictions (Brussels) 22 (December 2004): 120-133.
    • English translation (abridged version): “How to Escape the Law and Order Snare,” Criminal Justice Matters (London), Special Issue on Politics, Economy and Crime, Winter 2007.
  • "A aberração carcerária à moda francesa." Dados (Rio de Janeiro) 47-2 (2004): 215-232.
    • Also published as: "A aberração carcerária francesa," Forum sociológico (Lisboa), 11/12, 2004, pp. 307-318.
    • French original: “L’aberration carcérale à la française,” Regards sociologiques, 30, Fall 2005, pp. 61-71.
    • Italian translation: “L’aberrazione carceraria a la francesa,” Antigone (Rome), 1-1, Fall 2006, pp. 66-81.
    • Abridged previous version in Le Monde Diplomatique, September 2004 (also in Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian, Italian, German, Arabic).
  • "Habitus." Pp. 315-319 in International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. Edited by Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski. London: Routledge, 2005.
    • Portuguese: "Esclarecer o habitus," Sociologia. Problemas e práticas (Lisboa), 14, Fall 2004, pp. 35-41.
    • Brazilian: "Mappeando o habitus," Habitus (Recife), 2-1, January 2004, pp. 11-18.
    • Slovenian translation forthcoming in Monitor ZSA (Ljubljana), 6-1/2 (May 2006).
  • "El pensamiento crítico como disolvente de la doxa." Adef: Revista de Filosofía 26-1 (May 2001)(Buenos Aires): 129-134.
    • Reprinted in Archipiélago. Cuadernos de crítica de la cultura, 53 (Madrid), November 2002, pp. 83-87.
    • Reprinted as “Pensamento crítico y disolución de la dóxa,” Distancia Crítica (Líma, Peru), 2, Spring 2005, pp. 28-30.
    • Reprinted in Antípodia. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología (Caracás), 2, Spring 2006.
    • English translation: “Critical Thought as Solvent of Doxa,” Constellations , 11-1, Spring 2004, pp. 97-101.
    • Slovenian: “Kriti no mišljenje kot topilo dokse,” forthcoming in Monitor ZSA (Ljubljana), 7-1/2 (May 2006).
    • German: “Kritisches Denken als Lösungsmittel der Doxa,” Republicart (Berlin), Winter 2005; also translated as: “Kritisches Denken als Zersetzung der Doxa,” in Uwe H. Bittlingmayer and Ullrich Bauer (eds.), Die “Wissensgesellschaft”: Mythos, Ideologie oder Realität?, Wiesbaden, Verlag Sozialwissenschaften, 2006, pp. 669-674.
    • Danish: “Hensynslřs kritik af alt bestĺende,” Social Kritik: Tidsskrift for social analyse & debat (Copenhagen), 100, October 2005, pp. 4-9.
  • "Une expérience de sociologie charnelle." Solidarités 29 (June 2004): 18-20.
    • German translation: “Das Wissen der Körpers des Boxers,” Jungle World (Berlin), 41, October 2004, pp. 24-25.
    • Portuguese: “Como se faz um boxeur: uma experięncia de sociologia carnal,” Forum sociológico (Lisboa), 13-14, 2nd series, 2005, pp. 191-198.
    • Spanish: “El atleta como un espejo del mundo,” Revista de Cultura - Diario Clarín (Buenos Aires), 133, 15 April 2006, pp. 10-12.
  • "Ghetto." In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. London: Pergamon Press, rev. ed. 2004.
    • Portuguese translation: "O qué é um gueto? Um conceito sociológico," Revista de sociologia e política, 23, November 2004, pp. 155-164.
    • German: "Was ist ein Ghetto? Konstruktion eines soziologischen Konzepts," Prokla (Berlin), 34-1, March 2004, pp. 133-148; also reprinted in Mittelweg 36 (Frankfurt), July 2004.
    • Spanish: "Las dos caras de un gueto: La construcción de un concepto sociológico," Renglones (Mexico), 56, February 2004, pp. 72-80.
    • Hebrew: Israeli Sociology, 6-1, Winter 2004, pp. 151-162, followed by comments: Alina Korn, "Some Israeli Reflections on the Concept of the Ghetto," pp. 163-170; and Sasha Weitman, "Ghetto Dwellers of the World, Unite!," pp. 171-174.
    • Dutch: "Wat is een getto? De constructie van een sociologisch concept," Stedebouw & Ruimtelijke Ordening (The Hague), 5, November 2004, pp. 22-26; also abridged as: "Het janusgesicht van het ghetto," Agora (Amsterdam), 21-2, Spring 2005, pp. 37-41.
    • French (revised and extended version): "Les deux visages du ghetto: construire un concept sociologique," Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 161, November 2005, pp. 4-21.
    • Greek translation: in The Greek Review of Social Research , 118, October 2005, pp. 145-163 .
    • Slovenian: "Kaj je geto? Konstruiranje sociološkega koncepta," forthcoming in Monitor ZSA (Ljubljana), 6-1/2 (May 2006).
  • "The Taste and Ache of Action." Pp. vii-xii in Body and Soul: Ethnographic Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
    • Brazilian translation: "O sabor e a dor da açâo." Preface to Corpo e alma. Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, pp. 11-17.
    • Italian: "Il sapore e il dolore dell’azione." Preface to Anima e corpo, Roma, Derive Approdi, 2002, pp. 7-11.
    • German: "Lust und Leid des Handelns." Postface to Leben für den Ring, Konstanz, UVK Universitätsverlag, 2003, pp. 269-274.
    • Spanish: "El sabor et el dolor de la accción." Preface to Entre las cuerdas. Cuadernos etnográficos de un aprendiz de boxeador, Madrid, Allianza, 2004, pp. 15-19.
    • French original: "La saveur et la douleur de l'action," Corps et culture, 6, Spring 2004, pp. 257-261.

  • "Pointers on Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics." Constellations 11-1 (Spring 2004): 3-15.
    • Brazilian translation forthcoming in Habitus (Recife), 2, Spring 2005

  • "Scrutinizing the Street: Poverty, Morality, and the Pitfalls of Urban Ethnography." American Journal of Sociology 107-6 (May 2002): 1468-1532.

  • The Sociological Life of Pierre Bourdieu." International Sociology 17-4 (December 2002) 17-4: 549-556.
    • Spanish translation: "A vida sociologíca de Pierre Bourdieu," Apuntes de investigacion (Buenos Aires), 10, Spring 2003; also in Revista colombiana de sociologia, forthcoming Summer 2003.
    • Japanese: Iichiko (Tokyo), 76, Autumn 2002, pp. 120-127.
    • Hebrew: Israeli Sociology, 4-2, Fall 2002, pp. 437-449.
    • Chinese: Journal of Social Science (Hong Kong), Fall 2002.
    • Portuguese: "A Vida sociológica de Pierre Bourdieu," Revista de Sociologia e Política, 19, November 2002, pp. 95-100.
    • French: "La vie sociologique de Pierre Bourdieu," Politique. Revue européenne de débat, 4, October 2002, pp. 114-119.

  • "An Inventive and Iconoclastic Scientist." Berkeley Journal of Sociology 46 (2002): 177-179.
    • Spanish translation: "Un sabio imaginativo e iconoclasta," Archipiélago. Cuadernos de crítica de la cultura, 51, Spring 2002, pp. 94-96; also in Panoptico, 3, new series, Spring 2002, pp. 143-145.
    • Japanese: Iichiko (Tokyo), 82, Spring 2003.
    • Farsi: "Bonyangozar-e markaz-e jame'e-shenasi-ye orupayi," Ketab-e Mah-e Olum-e Ejtemai (Social Science Monthly Review), vol.5, n° 53, March 2002, pp. 47-48.

  • "Everything is Social: In memoriam Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002" (with Craig Calhoun). ASA Footnotes 30-2 (February 2002): 5, 10. [long version]
    • Extended version in Danish translation: “ ‘Alt er socialt’: In memoriam Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002),” Dansk Sociologi, 13-1, Fall 2002, pp. 7-10.
    • Chinese: forthcoming in Cultural Studies: West and China, Peking, Fall 2002.
    • Spanish: “‘Todo es social’: in memoriam Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002),” in Isabel Jiménez (ed.), Ensayos Sobre Pierre Bourdieu y su Obra I, México, UNAM/Plaza y Valdés Editores, 2005, pp. 27-33.
    • Farsi: “Hame-chiz ejtemai ast. Be yad-e Pierre Bourdieu.” Ketab-e Mah-e Olum-e Ejtemai (Social Science Monthly Review), vol. 7, n° 81, July 2004, pp. 55-58.

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Selected Papers (Click on the rubric to access a selection of papers on that theme)

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Selected Media Articles and Interviews


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Journals


  • Ethnography (Center for Urban Ethnography, UC-Berkeley): a meeting ground for practicioners of field research across the social sciences.
  • Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris).
  • "A Sociological Workshop in Action: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales." Pp. 683-685 in The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought. Edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
    • Spanish translation: "Un taller sociológico en acción: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales," in Isabel Jímenez (ed.), Ensayos Sobre Pierre Bourdieu y su Obra I, México, UNAM/Plaza y Valdés Editores, 2005, pp. 381-387; also in Trabajo y Sociedad, 5-6, July-September 2003 (Santiago del Estero, Argentina).
    • Chinese: Cultural Studies: West and China, Peking, Fall 2002.
    • Hebrew: Israeli Sociology, 4-2, Fall 2002, pp. 444-449.
    • Czech: "Sociologická dílna v akci: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales," Biograf: Casopis pro biografickou a reflexivní sociologii (Prague), 27, Summer 2002, pp. 85-89.
    • Portuguese: "Uma officina sociológica em ação: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales," Revista de sociologia e política, 19, November 2002, pp. 104-110. Also in Cadernos de ciências socíais (Lisbõa), Spring 2005.

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Public Lectures and Talks

 

* "Burn Baby Burn, French Style?" Webcast of the talk/debate on "Roots of the Riots in the French City" with historian Tyler Stovall, Center on Institutions and Governance, UC-Berkeley (17 November 2005).

* "Idealism Frappé: On Robert Reich's Fairy Tales of American Democracy": A Debate on the Future of Democracy in America with Robert Reich, Robert Bellah, Mike Hout, and Margaret Weir - Public Sociology Forum, Department of Sociology, UC-Berkeley (27 April 2005).

Recent and upcoming lectures - 2007

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Courses Taught

Sociology 101C: Pierre Bourdieu and Classical Social Theory (Spring 2006) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 280A: Permutations of Penality (Spring 2006) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 115: Deviance, Crime and Control (Fall 2005) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 273E/Anthropology 250J: Ethnography Inside Out (with Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Fall 2005) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 131B: Elementary Forms of Racial Domination (Spring 2005) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 202B: Practice and Symbolic Power in Pierre Bourdieu (Spring 2005) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 132: Four Centuries of Racial Vision and Division in the United States (Spring 2003) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 280B: Comparing Institutions of Racial Domination (Spring 2003) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 272E: Ethnography as Embedded and Embodied Social Research (Spring 2002) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 202B: The Body In and Out of Social Theory (Fall 2001) Syllabus PDF

Sociology 190.2: Punishment and Imprisonment in Modern Society (Spring 2001) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 202B: Durkheim, Mauss, Bourdieu (Fall 2000) - Syllabus PDF

Sociology 280J: Metropolis Unbound: Theories and Issues for an Urban Sociology (Spring 2000) - Syllabus PDF


Conferences
  • ETHNOGRAFEAST I, Berkeley (12-14 September 2002)
  • ETHNOGRAFEAST II, Paris (15-18 September 2004)
  • ETHNOGRAFEAST III, Lisbon (20-23 June 2007)

  • PUTTING PIERRE BOURDIEU TO WORK I, New York (12-13 May 2004)

  • PUTTING PIERRE BOURDIEU TO WORK II
    • , Berkeley (12-13 May 2005)
    • Featuring 24 presenters (including 4 faculty) coming from 5 disciplines and 8 universities in 5 countries, and covering a wide array of topics ranging from Mexican berry-farm workers, the medieval roots of habitus, US "think tanks," and Chinese cinema to the making of economists, terrorism experts, soldiers, families, the penal state, and the public sphere, this working conference is intended as an interdisciplinary vehicle for doctoral students conducting social research deploying Pierre Bourdieu's concepts, a platform to present and discuss their work and to learn from each other's approaches, problems, and solutions. Interested scholars grappling with germane issues are welcome to attend and join in the discussion.
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  • PUTTING PIERRE BOURDIEU TO WORK III, Ann Arbor, Michigan (28-30 September 2006)

  • PROBING THE PENAL STATE, Berkeley (5-6 May 2006)
  • INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE, on “Racing the Republic: Ethnicity and Inequality in France in American and World Perspective” (UC-Berkeley, 7-8 September 2007).

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