@article{Wacquant_2004, place={Berlin, DE}, title={Was ist ein Ghetto? Konstruktion eines soziologischen Konzepts}, volume={34}, url={https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/645}, DOI={10.32387/prokla.v34i134.645}, abstractNote={<p>Altbough the social sciences have made extensive use of the term "ghetto" as a descriptive term, they have failed to forge a robust analytical concept of the same. This article constructs a relational concept of the ghetto as a Janus-faced instrument of ethnoracial closure and control. A ghetto is an social-organizational device composed of four elements (stigma, constraint, spatial confinement, and institutional encasement) that employs space to reconcile the two antinomic purposes of economic exploitation and social ostracization.</p>}, number={134}, journal={PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft}, author={Wacquant, Loïc}, year={2004}, month={März}, pages={133–147} }