World at Risk, 2nd Edition
$67.73
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
13 November 2008
Summary
Twenty 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. 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 ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745642017 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0745642012 |
| Author: | Ulrich Beck |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 13 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 23mm |
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“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.” John Urry, University of Lancaster
“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.” Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
About The Author
Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich.
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