Ulrich Beck : theorising world risk society and cosmopolitanism / Klaus Rasborg.
Rasborg, Klaus, author.
2021
HM1101 .R3713 2021
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Title Ulrich Beck : theorising world risk society and cosmopolitanism / Klaus Rasborg.
Author Rasborg, Klaus, author.
Uniform Title Ulrich Beck. English
ISBN 9783030892012 (electronic bk.)
3030892018 (electronic bk.)
9783030892005
303089200X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89201-2
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Language Note Translated from Danish.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-89201-2 doi
Call Number HM1101 .R3713 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 302/.12
Summary This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck's theory of the (world) risk society, from its original formulation up to his sudden death on New Year's Day 2015. Beck's entire body of work is divided into four interrelated phases, which are successively presented and discussed, namely: the original theory of risk society (from 1986 onwards); the theory of the world risk society (from 1996 onwards); the theory of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitanization (from 1996 onwards); and the theory of 'metamorphosis', 'emancipatory catastrophism and 'global imagined risk communities' (201316). The book thus demonstrates how Becks concept of the (world) risk society has given us a new language or a special lens that enables us to better understand contemporary societys complexity and its myriad of human-made uncertainties in terms of climate change, terrorist threats, global pandemics, economic crises, and migration crises.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Introduction
2. What is risk?
3. The idea of the risk society
4. Individualization beyond class and social communities?
Chapter 5. Reflexive modernity
6. The transformation of family, wage labour and politics in the (world) risk society
7. The world risk society as a cosmopolitan society?
8. The (world) risk society in a critical perspective.

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