Loïc Wacquant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. A McArthur Prize winner, his research interests include comparative urban marginality, the penal state, embodiment and social theory. His books have been translated in twenty languages and include Urban Outcasts (2008), Punishing the Poor (2009), and The Invention of the "Underclass" (2021).

• PREFACE TO THE EXPANDED ANNIVERSARY EDITION: WHEN SOCIAL SCIENCE MEETS THE SWEET SCIENCE PROLOGUE THE STREET AND THE RING An Island of Order and Virtue "The Boys Who Beat the Street" A Scientifically Savage Practice The Social Logic of Sparring An Implicit and Collective Pedagogy Managing Bodily Capital FIGHT NIGHT AT THE STUDIO "You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed Up" Weigh-in at the Illinois State Building An Anxious Afternoon Welcome to Studio Pitiful Preliminaries Strong Beats Hannah by TKO in the Fourth Make Way for the Exotic Dancers "You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin'" "BUSY" LOUIE AT THE GOLDEN GLOVES POSTFACE FORGING THE PUGILISTIC HABITUS: REFLECTIONS ON BECOMING A PRIZEFIGHTER Pathway to the ethnographic craft Habitus comes to the gym For epistemic reflexivity: from flesh to text Appendix: Genealogy and anatomy of habitus THE AFTERLIVES OF CHICAGO PRIZEFIGHTING ACROSS THREE DECADES What they became after the Woodlawn gym closed On the social and symbolic structures of prizefighting Boxing life on the internet and death in a chicago ring Post scriptum: on pugilistic piety LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A NOTE ON ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND TRANSCRIPTION INDEX

It is a well-written, insightful and above all fascinating account which draws the reader in, combining sociological insight with good stories about strong characters.

Loïc Wacquant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. A McArthur Prize winner, his research interests include comparative urban marginality, the penal state, embodiment and social theory. His books have been translated in twenty languages and include Urban Outcasts (2008), Punishing the Poor (2009), and The Invention of the "Underclass" (2021).

• PREFACE TO THE EXPANDED ANNIVERSARY EDITION: WHEN SOCIAL SCIENCE MEETS THE SWEET SCIENCE PROLOGUE THE STREET AND THE RING An Island of Order and Virtue "The Boys Who Beat the Street" A Scientifically Savage Practice The Social Logic of Sparring An Implicit and Collective Pedagogy Managing Bodily Capital FIGHT NIGHT AT THE STUDIO "You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed Up" Weigh-in at the Illinois State Building An Anxious Afternoon Welcome to Studio Pitiful Preliminaries Strong Beats Hannah by TKO in the Fourth Make Way for the Exotic Dancers "You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin'" "BUSY" LOUIE AT THE GOLDEN GLOVES POSTFACE FORGING THE PUGILISTIC HABITUS: REFLECTIONS ON BECOMING A PRIZEFIGHTER Pathway to the ethnographic craft Habitus comes to the gym For epistemic reflexivity: from flesh to text Appendix: Genealogy and anatomy of habitus THE AFTERLIVES OF CHICAGO PRIZEFIGHTING ACROSS THREE DECADES What they became after the Woodlawn gym closed On the social and symbolic structures of prizefighting Boxing life on the internet and death in a chicago ring Post scriptum: on pugilistic piety LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A NOTE ON ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND TRANSCRIPTION INDEX

It is a well-written, insightful and above all fascinating account which draws the reader in, combining sociological insight with good stories about strong characters.

Loïc Wacquant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. A McArthur Prize winner, his research interests include comparative urban marginality, the penal state, embodiment and social theory. His books have been translated in twenty languages and include Urban Outcasts (2008), Punishing the Poor (2009), and The Invention of the "Underclass" (2021).

• PREFACE TO THE EXPANDED ANNIVERSARY EDITION: WHEN SOCIAL SCIENCE MEETS THE SWEET SCIENCE PROLOGUE THE STREET AND THE RING An Island of Order and Virtue "The Boys Who Beat the Street" A Scientifically Savage Practice The Social Logic of Sparring An Implicit and Collective Pedagogy Managing Bodily Capital FIGHT NIGHT AT THE STUDIO "You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed Up" Weigh-in at the Illinois State Building An Anxious Afternoon Welcome to Studio Pitiful Preliminaries Strong Beats Hannah by TKO in the Fourth Make Way for the Exotic Dancers "You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin'" "BUSY" LOUIE AT THE GOLDEN GLOVES POSTFACE FORGING THE PUGILISTIC HABITUS: REFLECTIONS ON BECOMING A PRIZEFIGHTER Pathway to the ethnographic craft Habitus comes to the gym For epistemic reflexivity: from flesh to text Appendix: Genealogy and anatomy of habitus THE AFTERLIVES OF CHICAGO PRIZEFIGHTING ACROSS THREE DECADES What they became after the Woodlawn gym closed On the social and symbolic structures of prizefighting Boxing life on the internet and death in a chicago ring Post scriptum: on pugilistic piety LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A NOTE ON ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND TRANSCRIPTION INDEX

It is a well-written, insightful and above all fascinating account which draws the reader in, combining sociological insight with good stories about strong characters.