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The Vertigo of Late Modernity engages with some of the most important concerns facing society today. Author Jock Young brings a fresh, intellectual perspective and offers a new dimension to sociological and criminological theory. He deals with the impact that major social issues have on the modern world, as well as the way in which society and individuals respond to these issues. This major new work explores the fundamental debates that need to be addressed in a late modern world filled with inequality and division.
Conclusion: Roads to Elsewhere
Conclusion: Roads to Elsewhere
Late modernity is a society of the elsewhere, a society where culture and space separate, where anxiety, hope and aspiration have reference points global in their reach, where virtual realities mediate an already complex quilt of cultures and experiences in the everyday urban reality. It is the plural cybersphere and the plural city. It is the elsewhere of the migrant, the dream of a new future, a transnational identity which exists in both the before and the after; it is the elsewhere of the Third World looking at the implosive images of the First, it is the elsewhere of the poor in the First World daily witnessing and servicing a comfort outside of their reach. It is the ...
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