Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
28 May 2008 repeat 01 June
BOXING Laurie Taylor is joined by Kasia Boddy, author of Boxing: A Cultural history, and Professor Loїc Wacquant, sociologist, ethnographer and former apprentice boxer to consider the sport’s history in terms of race, class, and representation, from bare-knuckle fights to attempts to tame the Kray Twins.
URBAN OUTCASTS Loïc Wacquant, Professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley, looks at the trend amongst academics and certain commentators for talking about “ghettoisation” in Europe’s cities, and questions the idea that our cities are becoming Americanised. He discusses his theory of ‘advanced marginality’, symptoms of which, he says, can be found on both sides of the Atlantic.
Additional information:
Kasia Boddy Lecturer in the Department of English, University College London
Boxing: A Cultural History Publisher: Reaktion Books; 1 edition ISBN-10: 1861893698 ISBN-13: 978-1861893697
Professor Loïc Wacquant Professor at the University of California-Berkeley and Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie Européenne-Paris
Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc. ISBN-10: 0195305620 ISBN-13: 978-0195305623
Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality Publisher: Polity ISBN-10: 0745631258 ISBN-13: 978-0745631257
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