In the Swarm: The Liturgy and Liquid Identity
Zygmunt Bauman's concept of "liquid modernity" is one of my recurring topics of exploration. To put it briefly, our age prizes flexibility...
Zygmunt Bauman's concept of "liquid modernity" is one of my recurring topics of exploration. To put it briefly, our age prizes flexibility...
The Polish-born sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who has died aged 91, deployed a metaphor since taken up by the anti-globalisation movement around the world.
Polish-British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman was born 100 years ago today. He is best known as the theorist of “liquid...
In 'Modernity and the Holocaust,' Jewish social theorist Zygmunt Bauman wrote about how rationalization can dehumanize a society's citizen.
Spread over more than 50 books, the tenets of “Baumanism” take their cue from Gramsci: an attempt to reckon with a capitalism more complex and...
Zygmunt Bauman, winner of Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities in 2010, was a philosopher and sociologist who...
Zygmunt Bauman: “Social media are a trap.” The Polish-born sociologist is skeptical about the possibilities for political change.
Bauman's analysis is crucial, for it precisely frames the evolution of social existence from the stable, hierarchical "solid" phase, through the...
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A sociologist who often addressed issues related to Poland's social and political landscape, focusing on critiques of modernity.