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The production of a human wastea -- or more precisely, wasted lives, the a superfluousa populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts -- is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side--effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity.

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"This is a rather brilliant, dense and chaotic meditation on ideas of waste in our time of what Bauman terms "liquid modernity" ... A sparkling and highly suggestive read." The Guardian

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Introduction 1

1 In the beginning was design

Or the waste of order-building 9

2 Are there too many of them?

Or the waste of economic progress 34

3 To each waste its dumping site

Or the waste of globalization 63

4 Culture of waste 94

Notes 134

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/10/2003
      ISBN13: 9780745631653, 978-0745631653
      ISBN10: 0745631657

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The production of a human wastea -- or more precisely, wasted lives, the a superfluousa populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts -- is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side--effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity.

      Trade Review
      "This is a rather brilliant, dense and chaotic meditation on ideas of waste in our time of what Bauman terms "liquid modernity" ... A sparkling and highly suggestive read." The Guardian

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements vi

      Introduction 1

      1 In the beginning was design

      Or the waste of order-building 9

      2 Are there too many of them?

      Or the waste of economic progress 34

      3 To each waste its dumping site

      Or the waste of globalization 63

      4 Culture of waste 94

      Notes 134

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