World at Risk

Name: World at Risk
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ISBN: 9780745642017

ISBN-10: 0745642012

ISBN-13: 9780745642017

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Ulrich Beck

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List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 12/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946



Acknowledgements



Introduction: Staging Global Risk



Relations of Definition as Relations of Domination: Who DecidesWhat is and is not a Risk?



The `Cosmopolitan Moment' of World Risk Society or: Enforced Enlightenment



Clash of Risk Cultures or: The Overlapping of the State of Normalcy and the State of Exception



Global Public Sphere and Global Subpolitics or: How Real Is Catastrophic Climate Change?



The Provident State or: On the Antiquatedness of Linear Pessimism concerning Progress



Knowledge or Non-Knowledge? Two Perspectives of `Reflexive Modernization'



The Insurance Principle: Criticism and Counter-Criticism



Felt War, Felt Peace: Staging Violence



Global Inequality, Local Vulnerability: The Conflict Dynamics of Environmental Hazards must be studied within the Framework of Methodological Cosmopolitanism



Critical Theory of World Risk Society



Dialectics of Modernity: How the Crises of Modernity Follow from the Triumphs of Modernity


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