Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age

by Zygmunt Bauman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745652956
• ISBN13: 9780745652955
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"