City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human
geography. While most of the world's population now lives in cities, the definition and …

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu …

The concept of territorial stigmatisation has garnered increasing attention over the past
decade. Studies from across six continents confirm and contribute to the concept's growing …

Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have turned from
analyzing the state's neglect and abandonment into documenting its harsh interventions and …

Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the
social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an …

Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban condition, viewed through the
prism of crime, disorder and social harm. This book gathers cutting-edge treatments …

Abstract “Shrinking cities” is a well-established term in academic discourse, describing cities
in distress. Using the notion of spatial or territorial stigma (Wacquant, Slater, & Pereira …

Abstract In Western Europe, a select number of “ghettos” are at the forefront of public
anxieties about urban inequality and failed integration. These notorious neighbourhoods at …

As any good American urbanist knows: race matters. But precisely how does it matter? How
have the pervasive and enduring modalities of racism (especially anti-Blackness) shaped …

Algorithmic systems have infiltrated many aspects of our society, mundane to high-stakes,
and can lead to algorithmic harms known as representational and allocative. In this paper …