Liquid sociology: metaphor in Zygmunt Bauman's analysis of modernity

In: Classical and contemporary social theory

Abstract

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.