Banlieues, the Hyperghetto and Advanced Marginality: A Symposium on Loïc Wacquant’s Urban Outcasts

It is difficult to exaggerate the importance for urban and social studies of Loïc Wacquant’s work (and indeed its relevance to political debate). As a contribution to bringing out and following up the importance of his most recent book, <roman>Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality,</roman> we have already published eight assessments (11:3, pp. 357--421), to which we now add Sako Musterd’s paper, ‘Diverse Poverty Neighbourhoods: Reflections on <roman>Urban Outcasts’.</roman> We intend to publish Wacquant’s response in 12.2.