World at risk /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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Cambridge, England :
Polity Press,
c2009.
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| Edition: | English ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.