2026 Loïc Wacquant: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	81	340	291	156	132	330	72266

Research.com Recognitions

1997 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Loïc Wacquant is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their academic work spans primarily in the Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Sociology and Political Science, contributing to a total of 53 publications in the field. Subfields of study include Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, Urban Studies, and Finance.

Their research addresses multiple topics, including:

Social and Cultural Dynamics
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Education, sociology, and vocational training
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Political Economy and Marxism
Homelessness and Social Issues

Wacquant has published extensively in various academic venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

La Pensée (4 publications)
European Journal of Sociology (2 publications)
Thesis Eleven (2 publications)
Qualitative Sociology (2 publications)
Ethnicities (2 publications)

Recent notable papers are as follows:

"The Trap of "Racial Capitalism"" (2023) published in the European Journal of Sociology
"Rethinking the city with Bourdieu's trialectic" (2022) published in City
"Carnal concepts in action: The diagonal sociology of Loïc Wacquant" (2023) published in Thesis Eleven
"In Praise of "Thick Construction"" (2025) published in Qualitative Sociology
"Racial Capitalism Decoupled: A Rejoinder and Reformulation" (2023) published in European Journal of Sociology

Frequent coauthors of Wacquant include Caroline Mary Parker, Chelina Sepúlveda, Chris Garcés, Fiona Macaulay, and H.C. Moore, each having collaborated on multiple publications.

In terms of book publications, Wacquant has released works through the following publishers:

Tirant Emporio do Direito Editorial LTDA eBooks, including titles such as "Comunidades Carcerárias na América Latina: Desconcertando mundos prisionais no século XXI" (2022) and "Comunidades Carcerárias na América Latina" (2022)
Rutgers University Press with the publication "The Globalization of Supermax Prisons" (2020)

Wacquant was awarded the Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1997.

Best Publications

An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology

Pierre Bourdieu;Loïc J. D. Wacquant

25916
Citations
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

Loïc J. D. Wacquant

5052
Citations
Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality

Loïc J. D. Wacquant

4103
Citations
Deadly Symbiosis: When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Mesh

Loïc Wacquant

2258
Citations
Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism

Loïc Wacquant

1928
Citations
Towards a reflexive sociology: A workshop with Pierre Bourdieu

Loic J. D. Wacquant

1642
Citations
Rethinking the state: Genesis and structure of the bureaucratic field

Pierre Bourdieu;Loic J. D. Wacquant;Samar Farage

1642
Citations
Las cárceles de la miseria

Loïc Wacquant

1410
Citations
On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason

Pierre Bourdieu;Loïc Wacquant

1308
Citations
Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market 2

Pierre Bourdieu;Loïc J. D. Wacquant

1233
Citations
Crafting the Neoliberal State: Workfare, Prisonfare, and Social Insecurity1

Loïc Wacquant

1167
Citations
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe Bourgois;Joseph Conrad;Michael Thomas Taussig

1057
Citations
Territorial Stigmatization in the Age of Advanced Marginality

Loïc Wacquant

972
Citations
Les prisons de la misère

Loïc J. D. Wacquant

962
Citations
The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City

Loïc J. D. Wacquant;William Julius Wilson

949
Citations
Prisons of Poverty

Loïc J. D. Wacquant

903
Citations
Pugs at Work: Bodily Capital and Bodily Labour among Professional Boxers

Loïc J.D. Wacquant

762
Citations
Territorial Stigmatization in Action

Loïc Wacquant;Tom Slater;Virgílio Borges Pereira

753
Citations
Parias urbains, ghetto, banlieues, État

Loïc J. D. Wacquant

722
Citations
Crafting the Neoliberal State: Workfare, Prisonfare, and Social Insecurity1: Crafting the Neoliberal State

Loïc Wacquant

700
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Bourdieu Collège de France

Craig Calhoun Arizona State University

Veena Das Johns Hopkins University

Philippe Bourgois University of California, Los Angeles

Nancy Scheper-Hughes University of California, Berkeley

Paul Farmer Harvard University

Hannah Arendt Keele University

Jean Paul Sartre Université Paris Cité

Noam Chomsky MIT

External Links

Wikipedia of Loïc Wacquant Personal website of Loïc Wacquant

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