Bourdieu in the City - Challenging Urban Theory

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loic 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 (the built environment). On this reading, Bourdieu's topological sociology gives us the tools both to energize and also to challenge the canon of urban studies and to redraw their theoretical landscape.Compact and incisive, Bourdieu in the City will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, and social theory.

Product details

• Authors: Wacquant, L Wacquant, Lo¿c Wacquant, Loc Wacquant, Loic Wacquant, Loïc Wacquant
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781509556441
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-5644-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Kultursoziologie, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Stadtsoziologie, Urban Sociology, Zeitgenössische Sozialtheorie, Contemporary Social Theory