Bauman's challenge : sociological issues for the 21st century

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Bauman's challenge : sociological issues for the 21st century

edited by Mark Davis and Keith Tester

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This unique and original collection by internationally renowned scholars uses critical engagements with Zygmunt Bauman's sociology to understand the challenges that face globalized human societies at the start of the 21st century. Includes a concluding chapter by Bauman.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • M.Davis& K.Tester Bauman's Europe, Europe's Bauman
  • W.Outhwaite The Use-Value of Human Waste and the Currency of Waste Disposal in Liquid Modernity
  • A.Peterson Bauman and the Drama of Abu Ghraib
  • S.G.Mestrovic Another Bauman: The Anthropological Imagination
  • P.Beilharz Bauman's Challenge to Sociology
  • T.Blackshaw Bauman's Implicit Theology
  • K.Flanagan Event Horizon: Utopia-Dystopia in Bauman's Thought
  • M.Featherstone Totalitarian Bureaucracy and Bauman's Sociological Imagination: In defence of the Ivory Tower
  • P.A.Taylor Resistance Towards Ethics
  • T.Campbell & C.Till What's in the Post?
  • J.O'Neill Conclusion: The Triple Challenge
  • Z.Bauman

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