Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age - Couverture rigide

Bauman, Zygmunt

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745652948 ISBN 13 : 9780745652948

Editeur : Polity Press, 2011

Synopsis

Collateral Damage Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. This new book focuses on social inequality. Poverty is often seen as a problem of law and order, but this obscures the social roots of inequality, which lie in the combination of a consumerist life philosophy and the shrinking life chances available to the poor. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The term collateral damage′ has recently been added to thevocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintendedconsequences of armed interventions, consequences that areunplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in humanand personal terms. But collateral damage is not unique to theworld of armed intervention – it is also one of the most salientand striking dimensions of contemporary social inequality. Theinflammable mixture of growing social inequality and the risingvolume of human suffering marginalized as collateral′ isbecoming one of most cataclysmic problems of our time.

For the political class, poverty is commonly seen as a problemof law and order – a matter of how to deal with individuals, suchas unemployed youths, who fall foul of the law. But treatingpoverty as a criminal problem obscures the social roots ofinequality, which lie in the combination of a consumerist lifephilosophy propagated and instilled by a consumer–oriented economy,on the one hand, and the rapid shrinking of life chances availableto the poor, on the other. In our contemporary, liquid–modernworld, the poor are the collateral damage of a profit–driven,consumer–oriented society – aliens inside′ who are deprivedof the rights enjoyed by other members of the social order.

In this new book Zygmunt Bauman – one of the most original andinfluential social thinkers of our time – examines the selectiveaffinity between the growth of social inequality and the rise inthe volume of collateral damage′ and considers itsimplications and its costs.

Revue de presse :

"Catalogues the almost irreparable damage and corruption visited onthe fabric of humanity and its collective values of solidarity, aswell as shared interests, by the practices of moderncapitalism." MorningStar   "A wise old man, raging against the rise of new evils and yetretaining a passion for a redemptive and transformative mission forsociology and its concerns, is something laudable." TimesHigher Education  

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0745652948
• ISBN 13: 9780745652948
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224