Book, Wasted Lives[LS]

Huge numbers of human beings, deprived of means of survival in their places of origin, today roam the world. “Our planet is full,” says Zygmunt Bauman in this book. Not only from a physical and geographical point of view, but also from a social and political point of view. There is no longer any space for this human waste produced by the consumer society. This outlaw population will never be incorporated into the production system nor will it maintain any type of stable relationship. The big problem for States is what destination to give them. This is the focus on which security policies across the planet converge. The production of marginalized beings is inevitable in our society. It is an inseparable consequence of modernization, a side effect of the new order and economic progress. In Wasted Lives, Bauman illuminates with his reflections this dark scenario in which our world finds itself. Concerned about the environment in which we live, he launches his acute and in-depth analysis in search of recovering a humanist perspective of the social.