The Spaces of Poverty: Zygmunt Bauman 'After' Jeremy Seabrook  

Oleh:

Hogan, Trevor

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Thesis Eleven vol. 70 no. 1 (Agu. 2002), page 72–87.
Topik: Bauman; consumerism; new poor; poverty; riches; Seabrook; space; work ethic
Fulltext: 72TE701.pdf (64.15KB)

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The poor might always be with us but neither in ways that we imagine them nor in circumstances of their own choosing. Poverty (and its subject class, the poor) has been a persistent presence in the modern social sciences – both as ethical shadow and methodological stimulus. Throughout his self-described career as 'professional storyteller of the contemporary human condition', Bauman's hermeneutical, dialectical and anthropological foci and modus operandi are impressively consistent, none more so than in his reflections on the problem of poverty. An important stimulant to Bauman's ruminations on the new poor has been the work of Jeremy Seabrook and not only because Seabrook's primary foci have been the symbiotic and dialectical relationships in the production of poverty and wealth in his chronicles of the poor in contemporary capitalism, in Europe and Asia. Indeed, it is arguable that Seabrook's own vocation as freelance journalist is emblematic of the kind of sociology Bauman exhorts the salaried members of the academy to embrace for now. This article traces the lineaments of the biographical parallels, intellectual resonances and methodological (or at least epistemological) affinities shared between Seabrook and Bauman so as to tease out what a sociology of the new poor looks like in the hands of Bauman after Seabrook.

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