IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/ijurrs/v33y2009i3p858-864.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Revisiting Loïc Wacquant's Urban Outcasts

Author

Listed:
  • MARY PATTILLO

Abstract

Loïc Wacquant's Urban Outcasts compares poor and working‐class neighborhoods in Chicago and Paris, and concludes that American racism has combined with advanced capitalism to create hyperghettos, whereas Parisian banlieues are heterogeneous anti‐ghettos that are nonetheless destabilized by labor market and political forces that render low‐skilled workers simultaneously superfluous and without a state safety net. This review revisits Chicago in the 2000s and argues that Wacquant both overstates the collective revulsion directed at disadvantaged neighborhoods and understates contemporary processes of erasure. It also suggests that using Chicago's marginalized neighborhoods as archetypes masks the diversity of race and class settlements in the US. This review agrees with the importance of uncovering the role of the state in shaping cities, and ultimately highlights areas of convergence and divergence in US and French housing policy as it relates to urban public and social housing. Résumé Urban Outcasts (Parias urbains) de Loïc Wacquant compare les quartiers déshérités et ouvriers de Chicago et de Paris, concluant que le racisme américain s'est conjugué au capitalisme avancé pour créer des hyperghettos, tandis que les ‘banlieues’ parisiennes constituent des anti‐ghettos hétérogènes qui sont néanmoins déstabilisés par les mécanismes du marché du travail et de la politique, lesquels rendent superflus les ouvriers peu qualifiés et les privent du filet de sécurité de l'État. Ce commentaire critique revisite le Chicago des années 2000 et affirme que, d'une part, Wacquant exagère la répugnance collective à l'encontre des quartiers défavorisés et, d'autre part, qu'il minimise les processus contemporains d'effacement. De plus, prendre pour archétypes des quartiers marginalisés de Chicago dissimule la diversité d'implantation des races et des classes aux États‐Unis. Convenant qu'il est important de révéler le rôle de l'État dans la conformation des villes, cette critique termine en soulignant les domaines de convergence et de divergence en matière de politique du logement aux États‐Unis et en France pour ce qui est du logement public et social dans les villes.

Suggested Citation

  • Mary Pattillo, 2009. "Revisiting Loïc Wacquant's Urban Outcasts," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(3), pages 858-864, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:33:y:2009:i:3:p:858-864
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00926.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00926.x
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00926.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Mario Luis Small, 2007. "Is there such a thing as 'the ghetto’?," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(3), pages 413-421, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sune Qvotrup Jensen & Annick Prieur & Jakob Skjott‐Larsen, 2021. "Living With Stigma: Spatial and Social Divisions in a Danish City," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(1), pages 186-196, January.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ela, Nate, 2018. "Use-Based Welfare: Property Experiments in Chicago, 1895-1935," SocArXiv 5qpa6, Center for Open Science.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:33:y:2009:i:3:p:858-864. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0309-1317 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.