Bauman's challenge
Subtitle: sociological issues for the 21st century
By: edited by Mark Davis and Keith Tester
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780230221345
Description: This collection by a mix of internationally renowned and emerging scholars uses critical engagements with Zygmunt Bauman's sociology to identify and better understand those diverse challenges that face globalized human societies at the start of the 21st century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bauman's Europe; Europe's Bauman / William Outhwaite; title: The use-value of human waste and the currency of waste-disposal sites in liquid modernity / Abby Peterson; title: Bauman and the drama of Abu Ghraib / Stjepan G. Mestrovic; title: Another Bauman: the anthropological imagination / Peter Beilharz; title: Bauman's challenge to sociology / Tony Blackshaw; title: Bauman's implicit theology / Kieran Flanagan; title: Event horizon: Utopia-dystopia in Bauman's though / Mark Featherstone; title: Totalitarian bureaucracy and Bauman's sociological imagination: in defence of the Ivory Tower / Paul Taylor; title: Resistance towards ethics / Tom Campbell and Chris Till; title: What's in the post? / John O'Neill; title: Conclusion: the triple challenge / Zygmunt Bauman.