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World at Risk (eBook)

Ulrich Beck (Autor)

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2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7456-8162-7 (ISBN)

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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 significance. Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises have produced worldwide consequences that are difficult to control and politicians have been forced to accept that climate change is not idle speculation. In short, we have come to see that today we live in a world at risk.

A new feature of our world risk society is that risk is produced for political gain. This political use of risk means that fear creeps into modern life. A need for security encroaches on our liberty and our view of equality.

However, Beck is anything but an alarmist and believes that the anticipation of catastrophe can fundamentally change global politics. We have the opportunity today to reconfigure power in terms of what Beck calls a 'cosmopolitan material politics’.

World at Risk is a timely and far-reaching analysis of the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global politics by one of the most original and exciting social thinkers writing today.

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich.

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 significance. Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises have produced worldwide consequences that are difficult to control and politicians have been forced to accept that climate change is not idle speculation. In short, we have come to see that today we live in a world at risk. A new feature of our world risk society is that risk is produced for political gain. This political use of risk means that fear creeps into modern life. A need for security encroaches on our liberty and our view of equality. However, Beck is anything but an alarmist and believes that the anticipation of catastrophe can fundamentally change global politics. We have the opportunity today to reconfigure power in terms of what Beck calls a 'cosmopolitan material politics . World at Risk is a timely and far-reaching analysis of the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global politics by one of the most original and exciting social thinkers writing today.

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich.

Acknowledgements vii

1 Introduction: Staging Global Risk 1

2 Relations of Defi nition as Relations of Domination: Who Decides What is and is Not a Risk? 24

3 The 'Cosmopolitan Moment' of World Risk Society or: Enforced Enlightenment 47

4 Clash of Risk Cultures or: The Overlapping of the State of Normalcy and the State of Exception 67

5 Global Public Sphere and Global Subpolitics or: How Real is Catastrophic Climate Change? 81

6 The Provident State or: On the Antiquatedness of Linear Pessimism Concerning Progress 109

7 Knowledge or Non-Knowing? Two Perspectives of 'Reflexive Modernization' 115

8 The Insurance Principle: Criticism and Counter-Criticism 129

9 Felt War, Felt Peace: Staging Violence 140

10 Global Inequality, Local Vulnerability: The Conflict Dynamics of Environmental Hazards Must be Studied within the Framework of Methodological Cosmopolitanism 160

11 Critical Theory of World Risk Society 187

12 Dialectics of Modernity: How the Crises of Modernity Follow from the Triumphs of Modernity 212

Notes 235

References and Bibliography 243

Index 261

"A fascinating examination of the risk society of the
twenty-first century. Ulrich Beck details the new world order where
terrorism and global climate change haunt our lives and engender
some powerful new risks and new modes of politics. This book
importantly draws together many of Beck's themes for
examining the main lineaments of the new World at
Risk."

John Urry, University of Lancaster

"Beck deploys the concept of risk as a sharply focused
flashlight that allows him to see what is typically obscured by
dominant notions and explanations. This becomes a process of
discovery, rare in the social sciences today, concerned as they are
with proof. He brilliantly conceptualizes these discoveries in
terms of categories not usually used in risk analysis, such as
cosmopolitanism. A must-read book."

Saskia Sassen, Columbia University

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.10.2013
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	attention • Book • catastrophes • Climate • Consequences • Contemporary • Control • Dangers • difficult • environmental • Financial Crises • forms • Gesellschaft • Gesellschaftstheorie • global arena • Last • New • Politicians • Risk • significance • Social Theory • Society • Sociology • Soziologie • two • Ulrich • Way • World • Worldwide • years
ISBN-10	0-7456-8162-X / 074568162X
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-8162-7 / 9780745681627

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