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Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts
Zygmunt Bauman
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Description for Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts
Paperback. The production of a human wastea -- or more precisely, wasted lives, the a superfluousa populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts -- is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side--effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity. Num Pages: 152 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 260.
The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity. As long as large parts of the world remained wholly or partly unaffected by modernization, they were treated by modernizing societies as lands that were able ... Read more
The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity. As long as large parts of the world remained wholly or partly unaffected by modernization, they were treated by modernizing societies as lands that were able ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
259g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745631653
SKU
V9780745631653
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About Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and the University of Warsaw.
Reviews for Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts
This is a rather brilliant, dense and chaotic meditation on ideas of waste in our time of what Bauman terms liquid modernity ... A sparkling and highly suggestive read. The Guardian