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…

Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprung from Bauman's…

This book is the first introductory guide to the work of Zygmunt Bauman, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It provides a firm foundation for the…

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last…

For the better part of its history sociology shared with commonsense its assumption of the ‘nature-like’ character of society - and consequently developed as the science of unfreedom. This book…

A discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict. It traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of ‘surveillance power’ and control…

Zygmunt Baumana s new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the a tabooa subject in modern societies: death and dying. The book develops a…

aeo A major new book by one of the most original thinkers today. aeo Develops a distinctive argument about the a liquida nature of modernity. aeo Re–examines key concepts which…