1st Edition

The Contemporary Bauman

Edited By Anthony Elliott Copyright 2007
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This text covers Bauman’s contribution to sociology and social theory. This ideal teaching text analyzes Bauman's shift from a sociology of postmodernity to liquid modernity, and provides a critical assessment of the contemporary Bauman, appraising his novel theory of liquid modernity in terms of its implications for self-identity, interpersonal relationships, culture, communications, and... Read more

Introduction Zygmunt Bauman: A Social Theorist for Our Time

Anthony Elliott

1 From Postmodernity to Liquid Modernity: What’s in a Metaphor?

Larry Ray

2 Love, Justice, and Death
Charles Lemert

3 Bauman’s Irony

Keith Tester

4 Human Waste and Wasted Lives: Bauman and Ethics

Iain Wilkinson

5 Liquid Sexualities: Gender Discontent After Bauman

Ann Branaman

6 Solid Modernity, Liquid Utopia: Liquid Modernity, Solid Utopia

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

7 Another Bauman: The Anthropological Imagination                       

Peter Beilharz

 8 Zygmunt Bauman and criminology: ‘a guiding narrative’?

Keith Hayward and Jock Young

9 Against Globalization: Postmodern Bauman and Kristeva   

Janet Sayers

10 The Vanishing of Interpersonal Relationships

Poul Poder

11 A Reply to my Critics

Zygmunt Bauman

 

Biography

Anthony Elliott is Professor of Sociology at Flinders University, Australia. His book, The New Individualism (2005), written with Charles Lemert, is also published by Routledge.

'Undergraduates might ask if this reader should be seen as a possible entry point for newcomers who are not aware of Bauman’s writings. I do believe so, simply because some of the texts found here are quite clear, especially the first two chapters.'

'Even scholars who are already familiar with Bauman’s books will find some interesting prolongations of his ideas...'
-Yves Laberge, Université Laval, in Sociology, vol 44 iss 3