Overview
- Analyses all of Beck’s work, right up to his death, for the first time in English
- Provides a unique balance of exposition and critique
- Written by one of the leading risk and Beck scholars.
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This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck's theory of the (world) risk society, from its original formulation up to his sudden death on New Year's Day 2015. Beck's entire body of work is divided into four interrelated phases, which are successively presented and discussed, namely: the original theory of risk society (from 1986 onwards); the theory of the world risk society (from 1996 onwards); the theory of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitanization (from 1996 onwards); and the theory of 'metamorphosis', 'emancipatory catastrophism and 'global imagined risk communities' (2013–16). The book thus demonstrates how Beck’s concept of the (world) risk society has given us a new language or a special lens that enables us to better understand contemporary society’s complexity and its myriad of human-made uncertainties in terms of climate change, terrorist threats, global pandemics, economic crises, and migration crises.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Klaus Rasborg is Associate Professor of Social Dynamics and Change at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark. His key research interests include classical and modern sociology, social differentiation, inequality, individualization, reflexive modernity, world risk society and cosmopolitanism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ulrich Beck
Book Subtitle: Theorising World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism
Authors: Klaus Rasborg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89201-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89200-5Published: 11 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89203-6Published: 11 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89201-2Published: 10 December 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 228
Topics: Sociological Theory, Social Theory, Globalization