Review of Jeremy R. Levine 2021: Constructing community: urban governance, development, and inequality in Boston. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Abstract

In a famously polemical review essay published in 2002, the sociologist Loïc Wacquant admonished urban ethnographers to shift their attention from the lives of the urban poor to the sites where the big decisions that shape cities and their inhabitants’ lives are made. Since then, a growing number of urban ethnographers have followed Wacquant’s […]