Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism

Social Anthropology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-79

  Wacquant, Loïc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Bureaucratic field; Governmentality; Market; Neoliberalism; Penal state; Prisonfare; Urban marginality; Workfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856509583     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2011.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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