Abstract
Loic Wacquant Commentaries
Highlights
Tony Gore From the present to the past and back again: Wacquant’s challenge for sociology .. 183 John Lever
During the conference on the first day, the papers by Emma Jackson and Kirsteen Paton emphasised not just the remaining centrality of class, but how it is manifested through the importance, and specifics, of places
This emphasis on space was retained in papers examining ethnicity and discourses of threat, risk, citizenship and belonging, including the cases of Muslims in France (Fabien Truong), Roma camps in Italy (Isabella Clough Marinaro) and advanced marginality in contemporary housing processes in England (David Robinson) as well as Loïc Waquant’s own public lecture on the two faces of the ghetto
Summary
My first reflection on the two days of events in Sheffield comprising rethinking urban inequality with Loïc Wacquant was a sense of excitement about the breadth and depth of work currently being conducted in this field and the real opportunities to forge new linkages across this research. During the conference on the first day, the papers by Emma Jackson and Kirsteen Paton emphasised not just the remaining centrality of class, but how it is manifested through the importance, and specifics, of places. This emphasis on space was retained in papers examining ethnicity and discourses of threat, risk, citizenship and belonging, including the cases of Muslims in France (Fabien Truong), Roma camps in Italy (Isabella Clough Marinaro) and advanced marginality in contemporary housing processes in England (David Robinson) as well as Loïc Waquant’s own public lecture on the two faces of the ghetto. Loïc Wacquant Commentaries need to challenge orthodoxies (academic, political and policy), recognising the value of subjecting one’s own work and assumptions to continuous reflection and critique: the ‘re-thinking’ that these events sought to stimulate
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