Contents

pp iii-iv

Acknowledgements

pp v-v

Notes on contributors

pp vi-viii

one - Introduction: reading Loïc Wacquant – opening questions and overview

pp 1-16

Section 1 - Theory and politics

pp 17-18

two - Bringing the state back in: understanding neoliberal security

pp 19-40

three - The state, sovereignty and advanced marginality in the city

pp 41-60

four - The third time as farce: whatever happened to the penal state?

pp 61-84

Section 2 - Welfare, agency and resistance

pp 85-86

five - Loïc Wacquant and Norbert Elias: advanced marginality and the theory of the de-civilising process

pp 87-106

six - Beyond the penal state: advanced marginality, social policy and anti-welfarism

pp 107-128

seven - Loïc Wacquant, gender and cultures of resistance

pp 129-150

eight - Women, welfare and the carceral state

pp 151-170

Section 3 - Urbanisation, criminality and penality

pp 171-172

nine - Illicit economies and the carceral social zone

pp 173-194

ten - The universal and the particular in Latin American penal state formation

pp 195-216

eleven - Neoliberal, brutish and short? Cities, inequalities and violences

pp 217-240

Response

pp 241-242

twelve - The wedding of workfare and prisonfare in the 21st century: responses to critics and commentators

pp 243-258

Index

pp 259-272