Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction: liquid sociology - what for?, Mark Davis; Blurring genres: a conversation with Zygmunt Bauman on metaphors, science versus art, fiction and other tricks of the trade, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Bauman's challenge: metaphors and metaphormoses, Anthony Bryant; Bauman’s travels: metaphors of the token and the wilderness, Kieran Flanagan; ‘Welcome to the Hotel California’: Bauman and Virilio on utopia, dystopia, and globalisation, Mark Featherstone; The Heineken effect: Bauman, Baudrillard and Žižek as metaphorical thinkers of liquidity, Paul A. Taylor; On the liquidity of evil: modernity and the dissolution of ethics in Bauman’s social theory, Ross Abbinnett; Strangers, ‘others’ and the unstable metaphors of race representation in liquid modernity: the case of the gypsy weddings, Simon Weaver; Risk, nichtwissen and fear: searching for solidity in liquid times?, Gabe Mythen and Sandra Walklate; From ‘solid’ producers and consumers to ‘liquid’ prosumers, George Ritzer and P.J. Rey; The question of a sociological poetics: metaphors, models and theory, Janet Wolff; 'Metaphormosis: on the metaphoricity of Zygmunt Bauman’s social theory, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Conclusion - liquid sociology, Peter Beilharz; Index.