Collateral damage: social inequalities in a global age

By:

Bauman, Zygmunt

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2011 Polity Press CambridgeDescription: 182 pISBN:

9780745652955

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305 B2C6

Summary: The term ?collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human and personal terms. But collateral damage is not unique to the world of armed intervention - it is also one of the most salient and striking dimensions of contemporary social inequality. The inflammable mixture of growing social inequality and the rising volume of human suffering marginalized as ?collateral' is becoming one of the most cataclysmic problems of our time... (http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745652948)

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The term ?collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human and personal terms. But collateral damage is not unique to the world of armed intervention - it is also one of the most salient and striking dimensions of contemporary social inequality. The inflammable mixture of growing social inequality and the rising volume of human suffering marginalized as ?collateral' is becoming one of the most cataclysmic problems of our time... (http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745652948)

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