From one Out-In to another: : What’s missing in Wacquant’s structural analysis

• Autores: Orlando Patterson
• Localización: Urban Studies, ISSN-e 1360-063X, Vol. 53, Nº. 6, 2016, págs. 1089-1094
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Loic Wacquant’s trenchant and much needed structural analysis owes its originality, in part, to the fact that he is an intellectual Out-In. That is, someone who observes and analyses from the perspective of both the outsider (a Frenchman who has studied ethnoracial dynamics in his native land) and an insider (a Franco-American who has studied and lived long enough in America to be able to claim true insider status). I too am an Out-In (a Jamerican who can claim equal intellectual engagement in Jamaican and American academic and social life), which is perhaps why I can better appreciate the strengths of his analysis and what is missing.