The contemporary Bauman

"This is the first book to provide a detailed critical assessment of Bauman's liquid turn in sociology. Anthony Elliott has selected representative extracts from Bauman's recent path-making work, ensuring The Contemporary Bauman provides critical appraisals of the theory of liquid modernity in terms of its implications for self-identity, interpersonal relationships, culture, communications and the broad-ranging institutional transformations associated with globalization."--Jacket.

Critique : privatized and disarmed / Zygmunt Bauman -- On being light and liquid / Zygmunt Bauman -- From heavy to light modernity / Zygmunt Bauman -- The theory of liquid modernity : a critique of Bauman's recent sociology / Anthony Elliott -- From postmodernity to liquid modernity : what's in a metaphor? / Larry Ray -- Bauman's irony / Keith Tester -- Falling in and out of love / Zygmunt Bauman -- On living in a liquid modern world / Zygmunt Bauman -- Gender and sexualities in liquid modernity / Ann Branaman -- Relatively liquid interpersonal relationships in flexible work life / Poul Poder -- Liquid love : psychoanalysing mania / Janet Sayers -- To each waste its dumping site / Zygmunt Bauman -- The reality principle and the pleasure principle strike a deal / Zygmunt Bauman -- Liquid waste, being human, and bodily death / Charles Lemert, Makenna Goodman -- Solid modernity, liquid utopia -- liquid modernity, solid utopia : ubiquitous utopianism as a trademark of the work of Zygmunt Bauman / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- On Bauman's sociology of suffering : questions for thinking / Iain Wilkinson -- On writing; on writing sociology / Zygmunt Bauman.