Bauman - Globalization and the New Poor

• Woman constantly migrates, three + homes, no community, culture not of place, but of a time (6/307)
• Imaginary home - does not need "home," home turned to prison, try to leave only to have to come back (7/308)
• Postmodern Freedom vs. Postmodern Slavery
• Dreams of homesickness put above the realities of home
• "They are on the move, because they have been pushed from behind, having been first spiritually uprooted from the place that holds no promise..." (7/309)
• The vagabonds are the waste of the world which has dedicated itself to tourist services
• Tourists vs. Vagabonds (7/309)
• Tourists travel because they want to, vagabonds because they have no other bearable choice. Vagabonds = involuntary tourists? Contradiction? (7/309)
• Producer society vs. Consumer society - What is the main role of the citizen - How are they engaged? Iceland - struggle between producer/consumer? (9/312)
• The passage from producer to consumer society has entailed many profound changes - the fashion in which people are groomed and trained to meet the demands of their social identities - integrated and given a place in the social order. (9/313)
• 1970 - 94 in European Union the number of people employed in industry fell from 30% to 20%
• In the industrial phase of modernity, one fact was beyond all questioning: that everyone must be a producer first, before anything else. In 'modernity mark two' the consumers modernity, the brute unquestionable fact is that one needs to be a consumer first, before one can think of becoming anything in particular (10/315)