I just finished a good book, written by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, called Society under Siege, which in my view, has been one of the best critique against the globalisation process and a defense of the nation states, even if the whole book is written and developed in a heavy and sociological technical language, which in some parts makes it hard to read.
The book per se is relatively recent and has a good scope and sense of what has been the globalisation process worldwide and in a satiresque and ironic way, Bauman the author, refers to our modern society, a "liquid society" one of short terms, one without reflections, determined by the globalising and homogenising forces destroying the nation states. Personally in my view the description of the refugees that Bauman makes has been one of the most acute and ironic I have ever read from any author, and he's extremely right when he makes a similarity between the global refugee population and the global elite, remarking that the refugees in many ways a mirror of the global rich elites, to which i definitely agree 100% percent.
In sum, I think it's a well written book though somewhat hard to read for the non experienced in social sciences and an academic and ironic critique towards the globalisation process, although by no means a defence of the nationalism movements springing nowadays in Europe especially with harsh consequences for the bloc.
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