Vagabonds and Tourists
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Vagabonds and Tourists. / Kristensen, Kristian Søby.
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology . red. / George Ritzer; J. Michael Ryan; Betsy Thorn. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Vagabonds and Tourists
AU - Kristensen, Kristian Søby
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Vagabond and tourist are two metaphors introduced to sociology by Zygmunt Bauman to analyze the human condition in globalization. The metaphorical pair highlights key aspects of an increasingly globalized and polarized human life in a world moving into what Zygmunt Bauman famously coined as liquid modernity. In a liquid modern and globalizing world, mobility is the main stratifying factor. Both tourists and vagabonds move, but they do so in a highly uneven fashion and under starkly different conditions. Movement for the tourist is effortless and desirable, but for the vagabond it is burdensome and forced. The tourist metaphorically stands for the globalized elite and the vagabond for the precarious poor. The two metaphors are key examples of Bauman's methodological application of metaphors and are put effectively to use in his widely influential and critical sociology.
AB - Vagabond and tourist are two metaphors introduced to sociology by Zygmunt Bauman to analyze the human condition in globalization. The metaphorical pair highlights key aspects of an increasingly globalized and polarized human life in a world moving into what Zygmunt Bauman famously coined as liquid modernity. In a liquid modern and globalizing world, mobility is the main stratifying factor. Both tourists and vagabonds move, but they do so in a highly uneven fashion and under starkly different conditions. Movement for the tourist is effortless and desirable, but for the vagabond it is burdensome and forced. The tourist metaphorically stands for the globalized elite and the vagabond for the precarious poor. The two metaphors are key examples of Bauman's methodological application of metaphors and are put effectively to use in his widely influential and critical sociology.
U2 - 10.1002/9781405165518
DO - 10.1002/9781405165518
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781405124331
BT - The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
A2 - Ritzer, George
A2 - Ryan, J. Michael
A2 - Thorn, Betsy
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
CY - Oxford
ER -
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