{"product_id":"world-at-risk-9780745642000","title":"World At Risk","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Urry,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUniversity of Lancaster\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSaskia Sassen,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eColumbia University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Staging Global Risk 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Relations of Defi nition as Relations of Domination: Who Decides What is and is Not a Risk? 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The 'Cosmopolitan Moment' of World Risk Society or: Enforced Enlightenment 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Clash of Risk Cultures or: The Overlapping of the State of Normalcy and the State of Exception 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Global Public Sphere and Global Subpolitics or: How Real is Catastrophic Climate Change? 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Provident State or: On the Antiquatedness of Linear Pessimism Concerning Progress 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Knowledge or Non-Knowing? Two Perspectives of 'Reflexive Modernization' 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Insurance Principle: Criticism and Counter-Criticism 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Felt War, Felt Peace: Staging Violence 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Global Inequality, Local Vulnerability: The Conflict Dynamics of Environmental Hazards Must be Studied within the Framework of Methodological Cosmopolitanism 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Critical Theory of World Risk Society 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Dialectics of Modernity: How the Crises of Modernity Follow from the Triumphs of Modernity 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Bibliography 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 261\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767976296791,"sku":"9780745642000","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745642000.jpg?v=1758715755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/world-at-risk-9780745642000","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}