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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

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.

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