Beck World At Risk Pdf
Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a bookthat called our attention to the dangers of environmentalcatastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporarysocieties. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted byBeck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance.Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises haveproduced worldwide consequences that are difficult to control andpoliticians have been forced to accept that climate change is notidle speculation. In short, we have come to see that today we livein a world at risk.A new feature of our world risk society is that risk is producedfor political gain. This political use of risk means that fearcreeps into modern life.
Beck World At Risk Pdf 2017
A need for security encroaches on ourliberty and our view of equality.However, Beck is anything but an alarmist and believes that theanticipation of catastrophe can fundamentally change globalpolitics. We have the opportunity today to reconfigure power interms of what Beck calls a 'cosmopolitan materialpolitics'.World at Risk is a timely and far-reaching analysis ofthe structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature ofrisk and the future of global politics by one of the most originaland exciting social thinkers writing today. Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction: Staging Global Risk Chapter 2 Relations of Definition as Relations of Domination: Who Decides What is and is not a Risk? Chapter 3 The 'Cosmopolitan Moment' of World Risk Society or: Enforced Enlightenment Chapter 4 Clash of Risk Cultures or: The Overlapping of the State of Normalcy and the State of Exception Chapter 5 Global Public Sphere and Global Subpolitics or: How Real Is Catastrophic Climate Change? Chapter 6 The Provident State or: On the Antiquatedness of Linear Pessimism concerning Progress Chapter 7 Knowledge or Non-Knowledge? Two Perspectives of 'Reflexive Modernization' Chapter 8 The Insurance Principle: Criticism and Counter-Criticism Chapter 9 Felt War, Felt Peace: Staging Violence Chapter 10 Global Inequality, Local Vulnerability: The Conflict Dynamics of Environmental Hazards must be studied within the Framework of Methodological Cosmopolitanism Chapter 11 Critical Theory of World Risk Society Chapter 12 Dialectics of Modernity: How the Crises of Modernity Follow from the Triumphs of Modernity Bibliography.