THE PUNITIVE MANAGEMENT OF POVERTY IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL INSECURITY

Please join us on Wednesday, September 22 for the opening of the 2010 Distinguished Lecture Series in the Social Sciences at Northeastern University, featuring Loïc Wacquant. He will speak on the topic of “The Punitive Management of Poverty in the Age of Social Insecurity.” Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. A MacArthur Foundation Fellow and recipient of the Lewis Coser Award of the American Sociological Association, he is co-founder and past editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography as well as a regular contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique. His interests span urban relegation, incarnation, the penal state, ethnoracial domination, and social theory.

His books have been translated into a dozen languages and include:

Professor Wacquant’s lecture is the �rst in a series of distinguished lecturessponsored by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Humanities Center, School of Public Policy & Urban A�airs, and College of Social Sciences & Humanities at Northeastern University.

For more information call Joan Collins at 617-373-2686 or visit www.socant.neu.edu

September 22,2010

Distinguished Lecturer: Loïc Wacquant

author of “Punishing the Poor”

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

12:00 -1:30 pm

20 West Village F, Northeastern University

360 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

www.socant.neu.edu

• Body and Soul: Notebooks of An Apprentice Boxer (2004)• Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics: The Mystery of Ministry (2005)• Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (2008)• Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2009)• Prisons of Poverty (2009)