World at risk

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This is a collection of key essays by Beck, analyzing the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global policies.

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Full title :World at risk / Ulrich Beck ; translated by Ciaran Cronin.

Summary

This is a collection of key essays by Beck, analyzing the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global policies.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.
Edition:English ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

Notes

Trad. de: Weltrisikogesellschaft : auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Sicherheit.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 269 p. : : ill. ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780745642000, 0745642004, 9780745642017, 0745642012
oclc:ocn851362882
LC Classification:HM1101
Dewey Decimal:304.2

1. Introduction: Staging global risk. -- 2. Relations of definition as relations of domination: who decides what is and is not a risk? -- 3. The 'cosmopolitan moment' of World Risk Society or: enforced enlightenment. -- 4. Clash of risk cultures or: the overlapping of the state of normalcy and the state of exception. -- 5. Global public sphere and global subpolitics or: how real is catastrophic climate change? -- 6. The provident state or" on the antiquatedness of linear pessimism concerning progress. -- 7. Knowledge or non-knowing? Two perspectives of 'reflexive modernization'. -- 8. The insurance principle: criticism and counter-criticism. -- 9. Felt war, felt peace: staging violence. -- 10. Global inequality, local vulnerability: the conflict dynamics of environmental hazards must be studied within the framework of methodological cosmopolitanism. -- 11. Critical theory of world risk society. -- 12. Dialectics of modernity: how the crises of modernity follow from the triumphs of modernity.

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21e siècle Aspect social aspect sociologique crise financière dégradation de l'environnement ÉCOLOGIE HUMAINE Écologie humaine -- Aspect politique Environmental degradation Environnement -- Dégradation Human ecology -- Political aspects Politique internationale Politique mondiale -- 21e siècle Risk -- Social aspects Risk -- Sociological aspects Risque Risque -- Aspect social Risque -- Aspect sociologique Terrorism Terrorisme World politics