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Ulrich Beck - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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"Living in and Coping with World Risk Society: The Cosmopolitan Turn "
2012Co-Authors: Ulrich BeckAbstract:Risk is ambivalence. Being at Risk is the way of being and ruling in the world of modernity; being at global Risk is the human condition at the beginning of the twenty-first century. But, against the grain of the current widespread feeling of doom, Ulrich Beck asks: what is the ruse of history which is also inherent in world Risk Society and emerges with its realization? Or more tightly formulated: is there an enlightenment function, a 'cosmopolitan moment' of world Risk Society? So, what are the opportunities of climate change and the financial crisis and what form do they take? About the author: Ulrich Beck is Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich (LMU), and the British Journal of Sociology Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is co-editor of the journal Soziale Welt and editor of the books Edition Second Modernity at Suhrkamp. His interests focus on 'Risk Society', 'institutionalized individualization', 'reflexive modernization', 'cosmopolitanism', 'cosmopolitization' and the 'emergence of cosmopolitan Risk communities'.
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critical theory of world Risk Society a cosmopolitan vision
Constellations, 2009Co-Authors: Ulrich BeckAbstract:A critical theory of world Risk Society must address at least three questions: (1) What is the basis of the critique? What is “critical” about this critical theory? (The question of the normative horizon of the world Risk Society) (2) What are the key theses and core arguments of this theory? Is it an empirical theory of Society with critical intent? (3) To what extent does this theory break with the automatisms of modernization and globalization which have taken on a life of their own and rediscover the openness of human action to the future at the beginning of the 21st century political perspectives, cosmopolitan alternatives?
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Living in the world Risk Society
Economy and Society, 2006Co-Authors: Ulrich BeckAbstract:In a world Risk Society, we must distinguish between ecological and financial dangers, which can be conceptualized as side effects, and the threat from terrorist networks as intentional catastrophes; the principle of deliberately exploiting the vulnerability of modern civil Society replaces the principle of chance and accident.
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The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited
Theory Culture & Society, 2002Co-Authors: Ulrich BeckAbstract:This article differentiates between three different axes of conflict in world Risk Society. The first axis is that of ecological conflicts, which are by their very essence global. The second is glo...
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World Risk Society
1999Co-Authors: Ulrich BeckAbstract:1. Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Manifesto. 2. World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society? Ecological Questions in a Framework of Manufactured Uncertainties. 3. From Industrial Society to the Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment. 4. Risk Society and the Welfare State. 5. Subpolitics: Ecology and the Disintegration of Institutional Power. 6. Knowledge or Unawareness: Two Perspectives on a Reflexive Modernizationa . 7. Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics, Critiques and Research Programmes. Notes. References. Index.
Simon Cottle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ulrich beck Risk Society and the media a catastrophic view
European Journal of Communication, 1998Co-Authors: Simon CottleAbstract:Ulrich Beck has placed ideas of `Risk Society' on the intellectual map; his social theory of late modern Society and its endemic production of potentially catastrophic Risks has attracted, rightly,...
Robert Dingwall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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“Risk Society”: The Cult of Theory and the Millennium?
Social Policy and Administration, 1999Co-Authors: Robert DingwallAbstract:The relation between theory and empirical data in sociology and social policy is explored through a critique of Ulrich Beck's influential book, Risk Society. Consideration is given to the extent to which a book that purports to describe contemporary societies in general is actually rooted in the unique circumstances of postwar Germany. The various arguments of Risk Society are reviewed and tested against relevant empirical reports from England. Many of the historical and contemporary generalizations made by Beck are shown to be questionable. The conclusion reflects on the popularity of the genre in which Beck is working and questions the consistent glumness of its attitude to contemporary societies—whether those of the 1890s or the 1990s. The new millennium might be a time for a new spirit and the rejection of the nostalgia and conservatism of humanities-oriented scholarship.
Jordan P. Howell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Risk Society without reflexive modernization? The case from northwestern Michigan
Technology in Society, 2012Co-Authors: Jordan P. HowellAbstract:Abstract Energy infrastructure projects have long been the source of public controversy, whether for economic, environmental, or social reasons. In this paper I examine the controversy surrounding the construction of a wind turbine park near Ludington, in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Michigan from the perspectives of Beck's ‘Risk Society’ thesis and the associated concept of ‘reflexive modernization’. Although many energy projects have been evaluated in such terms, the theories are traditionally presented as a single block. In this paper I re-consider the fusion of Risk Society and reflexive modernization through the analysis of resistance to the wind farm project outlined above. Following Beck et al.'s guidelines, I ‘test’ for the presence of reflexive modernization, analyzing the case study through a discourse analysis. I determine that while evidence of the ‘Risk Society’ thesis abounds, it is not entirely clear that ‘reflexive modernization’ is occurring. This is due, superficially, to differences in the involved parties' interests in actually changing (and being open to changing) their ontologies, policies, and procedures in response to critique; and, more fundamentally, to the inherent indeterminability of knowledge, or the realpolitik that conflict between competing claims to knowledge can never be resolved to all parties' satisfaction. To that end, I call for the re-isolation of the Risk Society and reflexive modernization concepts in relation to energy and other infrastructure projects.
Andrea North-samardzic - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A commentary on decision-making and organisational legitimacy in the Risk Society.
Journal of environmental management, 2008Co-Authors: Suzanne Benn, Paul Brown, Andrea North-samardzicAbstract:Key concepts of Risk Society as elaborated by Ulrich Beck and others (Beck, U., 1992 (trans. Mark Ritter). The Risk Society. Sage Publications, London. Beck, U., 1995, Ecological Politics in the Age of Risk. Polity Press, Cambridge. Beck, U., 1999, World Risk Society. Polity Press, Cambridge. Giddens, A., 1994, Beyond Left and Right. Polity Press, Oxford. Beck, U., Giddens, A. and Lash, S., 1994, Reflexive Modernisation: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Stanford University Press, Stanford. Beck, U., Bonss, W. and Lau, C., 2003, Theory, Culture & Society 2003, Sage, London, 20(2), pp. 1-33.) are illuminated though a case study of managed environmental Risk, namely the hexachlorobenzene (HCB) controversy at Botany, a southeast suburb of Sydney. We observe the way multiple stakeholder decision-making plays out a number of Risk Society themes, including the emergence of 'unbounded Risk' and of highly 'individualised' and 'reflexive' Risk communities. Across several decades, the events of the HCB story support Risk Society predictions of legitimacy problems faced by corporations as they harness technoscientific support for innovation in their products and industrial processes without due recognition of social and environmental Risk. Tensions involving identity, trust and access to expert knowledge advance our understanding of democratic 'sub-political' decision-making and ways of distributing environmental Risk.
