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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Liquid modernity"”.
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Liquid modernity as an analytical framework: a study of isolated northern towns
… areas attract. The thesis uses Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid modernity concept to examine the case of selected towns in the context of New Labour’s ‘third way’ politics. It focuses on the towns’ governance authorities and their relationship to regional and central government. Housing and prestige …
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Music, Politics and Liquid Modernity : How Rock-stars Became Politicians and Why Politicians Became Rock-stars.
… to arrest this decline Featherstone claims that liquid modem politics has gravitated towards the ease of 'commodified consumer critique' than using this shift as an opportunity for 'serious political critique'. Naively attempting to re-habilitate itself by constructing marketable identities to …
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Comfort in clothing: a Baumanian critique of how clothing contributes to the well-being of women in the United Kingdom.
… of the postmodern actor in his concept of Liquid Modernity, attributing them to the fast pace of change and overwhelming freedom of choice, factors inherent in today's fashion industry. Thus, this study makes an original contribution to theoretical knowledge by applying Bauman's concept of …
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“Foids have no soul, they are not human.” A sociological examination of the language used by an online male supremacy group.
… criminality, as described in The Vertigo of Late Modernity, was used to trace the path from globalization to liquid modernity to othering and, finally, to violence. Young’s work is key to understanding how an outgroup, in this case women, evolves from “us and them” to “us versus them” and finally …
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“It's not voluntourism”: unpacking young people's narrative claims to authenticity and differentiation in the international volunteer experience
… situate findings within the context of late or liquid modernity.
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The shifting sands of transparency: Sustainability reporting in New Zealand
… Model with Zygmunt Bauman’s (2000) concept of liquid modernity, to explain how different stakeholders have different impacts on target companies, and why that differentiation tends to run counter to theoretical, market based expectations. Twenty-eight interviews, including those with key …
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A critique of the ecclesiology, missiology and sociology of the Mission-shaped Church report
… to bear on the social reality of Bauman’s ‘liquid modernity’, yields a much richer understanding of the impetus of the gospel in contemporary England. Such a theology combats the anthropology of consumption through its emphasis on sacramental participation, and critiques the exclusion of the …
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Love letters to services past: risk and outdoor education in youth work
… of precarity, post-neoliberal hegemony and liquid modernity. Slow practice offers a counternarrative to the current post-neoliberal context of precarious short-term funding regimes, by suggesting that relationships developed through Slow practice are more effective ones, and, where they are …
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Drifting identity in the global era? Polish students in Irish Higher Education
… These journeys take place in the context of liquid modernity, as described by Bauman: the transition from communism to democracy, neoliberalism and globalisation, the transition from welfare state, with its security, to freedom and a deep sense of insecurity, unpredictability and the fear of …
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‘Edmund Burke: Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’
… twentieth and twenty-first century theories of modernity can help to articulate Burke’s conception of religion. <br/>Studies that have categorically seated Burke in the context of ‘modernity’ (for example, from Terry Eagleton, Paddy Bullard, and Stephen K. White) treat him as a ‘politician’, as …