| Description |
viii, 269 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Relations of definition as relations of domination: who decides what is and is not a risk? -- The 'cosmopolitan moment' of world risk society or: Enforced enlightenment -- Clash of risk cultures or: Thh overlapping of the state of normalcy -- and the state of exception -- Global political 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-knowing? 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 studies 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 |
| Summary |
'World at Risk' 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 |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: First published in German as Weltrisikogesellschaft Suhrkamp, 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-260) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
| Subject |
Environmental degradation.
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Human ecology -- Political aspects.
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Risk -- Sociological aspects.
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Terrorism.
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Risk -- Social aspects.
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World politics -- 21st century.
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| Author |
Cronin, Ciaran (Ciaran P.)
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| ISBN |
0745642004 (cased) |
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0745642012 (paperback) |
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9780745642000 (cased) |
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9780745642017 (paperback) |
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