Routledge International Handbook on Zygmunt Bauman

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is a Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on social theory, emotions, death and dying, palliative care, crime, literary sociology, and qualitative research methodology. He has written and published extensively on the work of Zygmunt Bauman.Dariusz Brzeziński is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Department of Theoretical Sociology, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on contemporary social thought, sociology, anthropology, and the theory of culture. He has written and published extensively on Zygmunt Bauman’s writings.Mark Davis is a Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. He founded the Bauman Institute in 2010 and was its director until 2020. His wider work is interested in theoretical and empirical puzzles at the intersection of economy, democracy, consumerism, and climate change. He has written and edited six volumes dedicated to Zygmunt Bauman’s work.Jack Palmer is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy and Director of the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, UK. He works at the intersections of historical sociology and the sociology of knowledge, and has published on theories of modernity, Holocaust and genocide studies, and the sociology of intellectuals and ideas, especially on the life and work of Zygmunt Bauman.

“This is the definitive resource in the growing field of what the editors appropriately describe as 'Bauman studies' and which they have done so much to develop. It also includes a wide variety of contributions by scholars who have worked on Bauman and drawn inspiration from his work.”-- William Outhwaite, FAcSS, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University, UK“The extraordinary scope, scale and continuing political and intellectual significance of one of the most penetrating and wide-ranging critical thinkers, cultural sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, is brilliantly affirmed by the depth, range and international authorship of this justifiably monumental Handbook that reveals how Bauman’s multi-faceted thought still offers a deeply relevant guide to our current global perplexities.”-- Griselda Pollock, Professor Emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Cultural Analysis, University of Leeds, UK“This is an exciting and comprehensive Handbook of essays covering the full corpus of Zygmunt Bauman’s oeuvre a single volume. The contributors are eminent scholars from all over the world and together provide a thoroughly interdisciplinary assessment of the major contribution of Bauman to contemporary social thought.”-- Laurence Ray, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Kent, UK“The Routledge International Handbook on Zygmunt Bauman is a comprehensive exploration of one of the most influential social thinkers of our time. Bringing together an international group of outstanding scholars, this volume illuminates Bauman's central concepts. The contributors skilfully trace the development of Bauman's thought while situating it within broader philosophical and sociological debates. Rich in insight and critical depth, this handbook is an indispensable resource for researchers, students, and anyone seeking to understand the fluid, uncertain dynamics of contemporary social life.” -- Aleksandra Jasińska-Kania, Professor Emerita at Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland

• The Life and Work of Zygmunt Bauman: Entanglements – Interpretations – LegaciesPreamble to Part I: Life and WorkChapter 1. The Traps of Engagement, Critical Sociology, and Cultural Theory: The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, 1953–1968Chapter 2. Bauman in Israel: Life and Work, 1968–1971Chapter 3. On the Margins: Bauman at the University of Leeds, 1971–1991Chapter 4. Globalizing Bauman: 1991–2017, and AfterChapter 5. The Autonomous Society Needs Autonomous Individuals: The Goals of Bauman’s Sociology of FreedomChapter 6. "On Writing, on Writing Sociology": Zygmunt Bauman’s Poetic ImaginationPreamble to Part II: Key ThemesChapter 7. Zygmunt Bauman’s Theory of Culture: From the Revisionist Turn to the Nostalgic TurnChapter 8. Theorizing Modernity: Zygmunt Bauman’s Critical Diagnosis of the Changing TimesChapter 9. Morality in the Humanist Thought of Zygmunt Bauman: From the Moral Party of Two to Cosmopolitan ResponsibilityChapter 10. Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology of Freedom: Freedom as a Differential, Ambivalent and Moral BlessingChapter 11. Politics: In Search of Human Freedom and DignityChapter 12. Globalization and Its Discontents: Tourists, Vagabonds and Nomads in the Work of Zygmunt BaumanChapter 13. Community: Chasing Elusive TogethernessChapter 14. Un-Consuming Life: Sociological Imagination for the Society of ConsumersChapter 15. The Power of the Past and the Future: On Nostalgia and Utopia in the Work of Zygmunt BaumanChapter 16. Deconstructions of Death: From Modern Medicine to the Postmodern Majestic MomentPreamble to Part III: Bauman in DialogueChapter 17. Retrotopia and the Universality of Hope: On Bauman’s Reception and Application in Japan and South KoreaChapter 18. Bauman’s Critical Sociology and Postcolonial Discourse: The Arab ContextChapter 19. Zygmunt Bauman’s Neo-Marxist Critical Theory: A Chinese PerspectiveChapter 20. Looking at Contemporary Mass Violence through Bauman’s WindowChapter 21 Zygmunt Bauman and the New Mobilities ParadigmChapter 22 Bauman on NaturePreamble to Part IV: Bauman and Contemporary ChallengesChapter 23. Anxiety: The Liquid Modern EmotionChapter 24. ‘Strangers at our Door’: Zygmunt Bauman’s Evolving Perspectives on the Migration CrisisChapter 25. Zygmunt Bauman on Surveillance in the Algorithmic ConditionChapter 26 The Class, Capital and the Place We Ultimately Occupy: Homeless Tourism in Buenos Aires CityChapter 27 Between Love and Community: Friendship, Intimacy and the Security-Freedom ParadoxChapter 28. Reclaiming Ethical Agency: Adiaphorization in a Time of Climate CrisisChapter 29. On Racism in Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity