Loïc Wacquant, "Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory"
English | ISBN: 1509556435 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social space (the distribution of capital in its different forms), and physical space