Loïc Wacquant: Outline of a Comparative Urban Sociology

Year 2019, Volume: 10 Issue: 26, 20 - 27, 14.05.2019

Tom Slater

Abstract

The prolific student of two giants
of social science,
Pierre Bourdieu and
William Julius Wilson, Loïc Wacquant is an interdisciplinary
sociologist who has made varied and original contributions to urban studies,
although his influence extends well beyond cities. His foundational writings on
carnal sociology, the penal state, ethnoracial domination and social theory
have been translated into two dozen languages and have
triggered debates in multiple disciplines. He is best known among urbanists for
his comparative analyses and conceptualization of advanced marginality and
territorial stigmatization. He is also widely
read for his thesis on the penalization of poverty,
and his rethinking of the vexed question of the ghetto.
His work is rooted in his insistence upon intensive fieldwork as an instrument of epistemological rupture
and theoretical construction. Wacquant’s emphasis
on the role of the state as producer of marginality,
the weight of symbolic structures in the production of dispossession in cities, and the
need to fuse theory, ethnography and
comparison has proven especially instructive and provocative.

 

Wacquant is Professor of Sociology
at the University of California, Berkeley and a Researcher at the Centre de
Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique in Paris.

Keywords

Urban Outcasts, advanced marginality, territorial stigmatization, urban sociology, Pierre Bourdieu

Loïc Wacquant: Karşılaştırmalı Bir Kent Sosyolojisinin Ana Hatları

Abstract

Sosyal
bilimlerin iki devinin, Pierre Bourdieu ve William Julius’un üretken öğrencisi
Loïc Wacquant, kent çalışmalarına, etkisi kentlerden çok daha öteye uzanan,
çeşitli ve özgün katkılar sunan disiplinler arası bir sosyologdur. Beden
sosyolojisi, ceza devleti, etnik-ırksal tahakküm ve toplum kuramı üzerine
kurucu nitelikteki yazıları iki düzine dile çevrilmiş ve çeşitli
disiplinlerdeki tartışmaları tetiklemiştir. Kent araştırmacıları içerisinde en
çok karşılaştırmalı incelemeleri ve ilerlemiş marjinallik ve bölgesel damgalama
kavramsallaştırması ile bilinmektedir. Ayrıca yoksulluğun cezalandırılması
üzerine tezi ve başa çıkılması zor getto problemini yeniden ele alışı da yaygın
bir biçimde okunmaktadır. Çalışmaları, epistemolojik kopuşun ve teorik inşanın
aracı olarak yoğun alan araştırmasına dayalıdır. Wacquant’ın marjinalliğin
üreticisi olarak devletin rolü, kentlerdeki mülksüzleştirmenin üretilmesinde
sembolik yapıların ağırlığı, kuram, etnografya ve karşılaştırmalı çalışmalar
konularındaki vurgusu bilhassa öğretici ve kışkırtıcı olmuştur.

Wacquant,
Kaliforniya Üniversitesi, Berkeley’de Sosyoloji profesörü ve Paris’te Avrupa
Sosyoloji ve Siyaset Bilimi Merkezi’nde (Centre de Européen de Sociologie et de
Science Politique) araştırmacıdır. 

Keywords

Kent Paryaları, ileri marjinallik, bölgesel damgalama, kent sosyolojisi, Pierre Bourdieu

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