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Fossil fuels are bad. Illegal immigration is necessary for the economy. Free markets are arbitrary and cruel. Christians are intolerant. Men and women are exactly the same. The dogma preached by the far left has gone mainstream and the results are frightening: Most of what you hear these days is flat-out wrong. Mark Davis pulls apart the tenets of liberal dogma in Upside Down, a right-side-up correction of everything that's wrong with today's topsy-turvy world
In: Classical and contemporary social theory
1. Liquid sociology : what for? / Mark Davis -- 2. Blurring genres : a conversation with Zygmunt Bauman on metaphors, science versus art, fiction and other tricks of the trade / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- 3. Bauman's challenge : metaphors and metamorphoses / Antony Bryant -- 4. Bauman's travels : metaphors of the token and the wilderness / Kieran Flanagan -- 5. 'Welcome to the Hotel California' : Bauman and Virilio on utopia, dystopia, and globalisation / Mark Featherstone -- 6. The Heineken effect : Bauman, Baudrillard and Zizek as metaphorical thinkers of liquidity / Paul A. Taylor -- 7. On the liquidity of evil : modernity and the dissolution of ethics in Bauman's social theory / Ross Abbinnett -- 8. Strangers, 'others' and the unstable metaphors of race representation in liquid modernity : the case of the Gypsy weddings / Simon Weaver -- 9. Risk, Nichtwissen and fear : searching for solidity in liquid times? / Gabe Mythen and Sandra Walklate -- 10. From 'solid' producers and consumers to 'liquid' prosumers / George Ritzer and P.J. Rey -- 11. The question of a sociological poetics : metaphors, models and theory / Janet Wolff -- 12. 'Metaphormosis' : on the metaphoricity of Zygmunt Bauman's social theory / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- 13. Conclusion : liquid sociology / Peter Beilharz.
Fossil fuels are bad. Illegal immigration is necessary for the economy. Free markets are arbitrary and cruel. Christians are intolerant. Men and women are exactly the same. The dogma preached by the far left has gone mainstream and the results are frightening: Most of what you hear these days is flat-out wrong. Mark Davis pulls apart the tenets of liberal dogma in Upside Down, a right-side-up correction of everything that's wrong with today's topsy-turvy world.
In: Classical and contemporary social theory
In: Classical and contemporary social theory
In: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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
In: Oxford biology
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Volume 179, Issue 1, p. 125-128
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
In: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Volume 28, Issue 5, p. 3-20
ISSN: 1469-2899