Ulrich Beck : theorising world risk society and cosmopolitanism / Klaus Rasborg.
2021
HM1101 .R3713 2021
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Ulrich Beck : theorising world risk society and cosmopolitanism / Klaus Rasborg.
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Ulrich Beck. English
ISBN
9783030892012 (electronic bk.)
3030892018 (electronic bk.)
9783030892005
303089200X
3030892018 (electronic bk.)
9783030892005
303089200X
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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©2021
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English
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Translated from Danish.
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10.1007/978-3-030-89201-2 doi
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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.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.