World at risk
Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; Malden, Massachusetts :
Polity
[2009]
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| Edición: | English edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623533106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Dedication
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- 1: Introduction: Staging Global Risk
- 1 Risk
- 2 Risk society
- 3 World risk society
- 4 The argumentative architecture and divisions of this book
- 2: Relations of Definition as Relations of Domination: Who Decides What is and is Not a Risk?
- 1 Are risks timeless?
- 2 The risk calculus: calculable security in the face of an open future
- 3 Risk and threat: organized irresponsibility
- 4 Relations of definition as relations of domination: who decides what is and is not a risk?
- 5 The role of technology and the natural sciences in risk society
- 6 Environmental conflict in society
- 7 The terrorist risk is transforming the foundations of international politics
- 8 Political reflexivity: the counterforce of threat and the opportunities of social movements
- 3: The 'Cosmopolitan Moment' of World Risk Society or: Enforced Enlightenment
- 1 Old threats - new risks: what is new about world risk society?
- 2 The 'cosmopolitan moment' of world risk society or: The cunning of history
- 4: Clash of Risk Cultures or: The Overlapping of the State of Normalcy and the State of Exception
- 1 The cosmopolitan event or the 'symbolic code' of 9/11
- 2 Belief in God or in global risk: clash of risk culture
- 3 Risk society is a (latent) revolutionary society in which a state of normalcy and a state of exception overlap
- 4 Global risks produced authoritarian 'failed states' - even in the West
- 5: Global Public Sphere and Global Subpolitics or: How Real is Catastrophic Climate Change?
- 1 Elements of a theory of environmental world risk society
- 2 Indicators, conditions of emergence and forms of expression of a global subpolitics
- 6: The Provident State or: On the Antiquatedness of Linear Pessimism Concerning Progress
- 1 The end of linear technocracy?.
- 2 On the antiquatedness of linear pessimism concerning progress
- 7: Knowledge or Non-Knowing? Two Perspectives of 'Reflexive Modernization'
- 1 Point of departure
- 2 Two perspectives of 'reflexive modernization'
- 8: The Insurance Principle: Criticism and Counter-Criticism
- 1 Non-knowing, drama and sociology
- 2 The insurance principle: objections
- 3 Counter-questions, counter-objections
- 9: Felt War, Felt Peace: Staging Violence
- 1 The antagonism of risk is grounded in its logic
- 2 Risk wars or: Staging organized violence in the world risk society
- 3 The terrorist risk: the global staging of felt war
- 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
- 1 The normative horizon of world risk society: normative and descriptive cosmopolitanism
- 2 The real scientific basis of social theory with critical intent
- 3 Political perspectives: cosmopolitan political realism
- 12: Dialectics of Modernity: How the Crises of Modernity Follow from the Triumphs of Modernity
- 1 On the distinction between the basic principles and basic institutions of modernity
- 2 Dialectics of anti-modernity
- 3 Dilemmas
- References and Bibliography
- Index.
