THE SOCIAL BASE OF THE PENAL STATE
Abstract
From an interpretation of class struggle - penal state as a neoliberal way of controlling the precarious - Loïc Wacquant evolved into an anthropological theory of state; state with a right penal hand and a left socio-educative hand. Reviewing criticism about how wrong social theories do understand what society is, by reading Loïc Wacquant, one can see that the author, at the same time, tries to unravel the identified problems and cannot get rid of them completely. Can we, one day, access the risks of new Holocausts? How and why the ancestral practices of human sacrifices continue to be happen in modern societies? To answer these questions, one recommends to complete the analysis of power with analyzes on the existential conditions of life and the struggles about social identities; to understand how powerful social identities claim for degraded social identities, such as the two sides of the same coin come together. To understand how feelings of confidence and revenge oppose and relate each other.
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