Handbook on Risk and Inequality

Edited by Dean Curran, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada

Contents:

Preface xiii
1 Introduction to the Handbook on Risk and Inequality 1
Dean Curran

PART I DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF RISK
2 Finance, risk, and inequality 17
Thibault Darcillon
3 Dimensions of risk and environmental inequality 39
David N. Pellow
4 Risk and (welfare state) politics 53
Philipp Rehm
5 Changing risks, individualisation and inequality in a recast welfare state 70
Klaus Rasborg
6 Digital risk and inequality 88
Elizabeth Cameron and Dean Curran

PART II THEORIZING RISKS AND INEQUALITY
7 Actor, structure and inequality: an intersectional perspective of risk 107
Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson and Susanna Öhman
8 Risk and new realities: social ontology, expertise and individualization
in the risk society 128
Philip Walsh
9 Corporations, class and the normalization of risk 143
Laureen Snider and Steven Bittle
10 Risk and trust: ethnomethodological orientations to risk theorizing 163
Patrick G. Watson

PART III SPECIAL TOPICS AND NEW AREAS OF RESEARCH
11 Inequality rising: the gendered impacts of precarious labor and financialization 179
Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar and Aleena Shafique
12 Beyond the spirit of the new urban crisis: risk-class and resonance 194
David Tyfield
13 Science, food, and risk: ecological disasters and social inequality under
the GMO regime 233
Md Saidul Islam
14 Risk society and epistemic inequality: rising voices from the ‘Global
South’ in global governance 247
Joy Y. Zhang
15 The political economy of climate vulnerability: searching for common
ground in a retrotopian world 261
David Champagne

Index