The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique, Paris. His books have been translated into twenty languages and include Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (expanded anniversary edition, 2022), The Invention of the "Underclass" A Study in the Politics of Knowledge (2022), Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory (2023), and Racial Domination (2024).