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Liquid Sociology
Zygmunt Bauman's 'liquid sociology' confronts the awesome task of reminding individual men and women that an alternative way of living together is within our eminent capabilities, if only we start to think differently about our world. The metaphor of 'liquidity', which has become such a prominent feature of his writings since 2000, provides us with just such a new interpretation, with a novel 'way of seeing'. Each chapter in this unique collection takes seriously Bauman's analysis of modernity as 'liquid', throwing new light upon global social problems, as well as opening up a space for assessing the nature of Bauman's contribution to sociology, and for understanding what may be gained and lost by embracing an artistic sensibility within the social sciences. With contributions from internationally renowned scholars, this book will appeal to all those interested in Bauman's work, especially within sociology, social, political and cultural theory, and to anyone curious about the value of metaphor in interpreting the social world.
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Zygmunt Bauman
This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman. After introducing the man, his major influences and his special way of 'thinking sociologically', author Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's project by identifying and explaining the major shifts of emphasis in his work - the break with Marxism and the postmodern 'turn', and the subsequent refocusing on 'liquid' modernity - as well as offering a clear and accessible guide to the key conceptual hinges which move the reader on.
This book, the only concise introduction to Bauman's work on the market, goes on to explain the importance of the full range of persistent themes concerning Bauman, dealing specifically with individualization, freedom, identity, community, social control, consumption and waste, building a penetrating understanding of why these issues matter for this Key Sociologist.
Bauman's ideas have impacted beyond sociology into criminology, political theory, cultural studies, leisure studies and so forth, and have also now penetrated outside the walls of the academy into social policy, welfare reform, social work and politics. Making use of pedagogical features such as boxed sections, chapter summaries, an annotated bibliography and links to further reading, this well-written text assumes no prior familiarity with Bauman's work and will appeal to anyone in any of these fields wishing to get acquainted with the ideas of one of the world's most wide-ranging thinkers.
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من الإنسان الصلب إلى الإنسان السائل : قراءة في مسار تحولات الإنسان من الحداثة الصلبة إلى الحداثة السائلة عند زيجمونت باومان
هذا الكتاب قراءة في مسار تحولات الإنسان من الحداثة الصلبة إلى الحداثة السائلة عند زيجمونت باومان\" يأتي في سياق رصد جوانب من سيرة عالم الاجتماع البولندي زيجمونت باومان، التي كان لها أثر قوي في تكوين المسار النقدي لديه وبناء مشروعه المتكامل سلسلة السيولة فضلا عن كونها دافع قوى في عادة قراءته لمشروع منظومة الحداثة الغربية، وبيان حركتها ومسيرتها وتحولاتها الكبرى أين نقلت الإنسان من نموذج الصلابة الذي كان مهيمن على الحداثة في مراحلها الأولى إلى نموذج السيولة باعتباره أصدق تعبيرا عن الصورة الراهنة التي لا تحتفظ بلقطة ثابتة، نتيجة التغير الدائم والسريع. وبالتالي يأتي نحت \"زيجمونت \"باومان\" لمصطلح \"الحداثة الصلبة\" و\"الحداثة السائلة\" دلالة على قدرته الفائقة على إبداع المفاهيم بلغة \"جيل\" دلوز\".
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A lonely society? Loneliness and liquid modernity in Australia
This paper reviews recent studies of loneliness in order to assess whether it is becoming endemic in Australian society. It develops the idea that loneliness is an embedded social structural feature of contemporary Australian life likely to affect people through the life course, creating psychological stress, ill health and social dysfunction. Zygmunt Bauman's writing on liquid modernity is used to trace a sequence of less binding social bonds from the community the workplace, intimate relationships, friendship and kinship that may account for a more generalised distribution of loneliness. Empirical evidence from recent national surveys in Australia demonstrates how Bauman's gloomy prognosis is particularly applicable in Australia. The paper argues that it has been invisible as a social issue until recently, but that its scope and scale have grown such that robust policy initiatives are now warranted. It argues that Australia's gendered pattern of loneliness indicates that Bauman's broad theory of liquid modernity must be mediated by several factors relating to national cultures, historic patterns of family formation, and the gender role distribution in the creation and maintenance of social bonds.
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Late modernity, individualization and socialism : an associational critique of neoliberalism
Around the world, the aftershocks of an economic crisis brought on by neoliberal economics and aided by the austerity measures of governments continue to be felt. Yet, we are told that there is simply no alternative; that our current form of capitalism is here to stay.
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Zygmunt Bauman
In this ground-breaking book, Shaun Best analyses the intellectual knowledge production of Zygmunt Bauman and his rise to academic stardom in the English speaking world by evaluating the relation between his biography, the contexts in which he found himself, and why his intellectual creativity is admired by so many people. Bauman has an interesting ‘contested’ biography and underwent a number of intellectual shifts from the early stages of his academic career as Marxist. Bauman moved on and for almost ten years he was associated with ‘postmodernity’ (from 1989-1997) but in 2000 he decided to distance himself from postmodernism and rebrand his approach to understanding the contemporary world as ‘liquid modernity’. Best shows how Bauman developed his canonised status becoming an intellectual guru in the UK and in Australia despite being largely ignored by the academic community in the United States and Central Europe. Rather than investigating Bauman’s academic output as a demonstration of his ‘creative genius’, Best argues that most academic output involves the interplay of multiple factors and this book evaluates the influences on both intellectual choices and the social factors or contexts that led Bauman to attach himself to different sets of ideas during his academic career.
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Bauman pours out culture Book Review
Not content to simply toy with definitions, he expands to look at the politics of difference, the role of globalisation in multiculturalism and the precarious position of art in the market place. A recurring theme is that of modernity without modernism, the notion that while we have moved to a point in history of continued technological progress we have similarly arrived at a place of spiralling social instability and surmounting inequality.
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