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Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts
- Genre
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- ISBN
- 9780745631653
- Subject Area
- Family Sociology
- Publication Name
- Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Subject
- Sociology
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 228 mm
- Item Weight
- 236 g
- Item Width
- 164 mm
- Number of Pages
- 152 Pages
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Product Information
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 to absorb the excess of population in the ?developed countries?. Global solutions were sought, and temporarily found, to locally produced overpopulation problems. But as modernization has reached the furthest lands of the planet, ?redundant population? is produced everywhere and all localities have to bear the consequences of modernity?s global triumph. They are now confronted with the need to seek ? in vain, it seems ? local solutions to globally produced problems. The global spread of the modernity has given rise to growing quantities of human beings who are deprived of adequate means of survival, but the planet is fast running out of places to put them. Hence the new anxieties about ?immigrants? and ?asylum seekers? and the growing role played by diffuse ?security fears? on the contemporary political agenda. With characteristic brilliance, this new book by Zygmunt Bauman unravels the impact of this transformation on our contemporary culture and politics and shows that the problem of coping with ?human waste? provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life, from the strategies of global domination to the most intimate aspects of human relationships.
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Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN-13
9780745631653
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89061126
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
152 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts
Publication Year
2003
Subject
Sociology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family Sociology
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
228 mm
Item Weight
236 g
Item Width
164 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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