{"product_id":"world-at-risk-paperback-softback-9780745642017","title":"World at Risk (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745642017","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWorld at Risk\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eUlrich Beck (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745642017, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 November 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.431 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTwenty years ago Ulrich Beck published \u003ci\u003eRisk Society\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHowever, 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’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld at Risk\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656081502488,"sku":"9780745642017","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745642017.jpg?v=1789174419","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/world-at-risk-paperback-softback-9780745642017","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}