World at risk /

Main Author: Beck, Ulrich, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Cambridge, England : Polity Press, c2009.
Edition:English ed.
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240 1 4 |a Weltrisikogesellschaft.  |l English. 
245 1 4 |a World at risk /  |c Ulrich Beck ; translated by Ciaran Cronin. 
250 1 4 |a English ed. 
260 1 4 |a Cambridge, England :  |b Polity Press,  |c c2009. 
300 1 4 |a viii, 269 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
500 1 4 |a First published in German as : Weltrisikogesellschaft. Suhrkamp, c2007. 
504 1 4 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-260) and index. 
505 1 4 |a 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. 
650 1 4 |a Risk  |x Social aspects. 
650 1 4 |a Risk  |x Sociological aspects 
650 1 4 |a Environmental degradation 
650 1 4 |a Terrorism 
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