Ulrich Becks best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management. The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Becks ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. The book is unique because it offers both an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of aspects of this and other works of Beck.
Notes on contributors vi Acknowledgements viii Introduction: Repositioning Risk; the Challenge for Social Theory 1(32) Barbara Adam Joost Van Loon PART I Recasting Risk Culture Risk Society or Angst Society? Two Views of Risk, Consciousness and Community 33(14) Alan Scott Risk Culture 47(16) Scott Lash Risk, Trust and Scepticism in the Age of the New Genetics 63(15) Hilary Rose PART II Challenging Big Science Nuclear Risks: Three Problematics 78(27) Alan Irwin Stuart Allan Ian Welsh Genotechnology: Three Challenges to Risk Legitimation 105(17) Lindsay Prior Peter Glasner Ruth McNally Health and Responsibility: From Social Change to Technological Change and Vice Versa 122(14) Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim PART III Mediating Technologies of Risk Child Organ Stealing Stories: Risk, Rumour and Reproductive Technologies 136(19) Claudia Castaneda Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture 155(10) Howard Caygill Virtual Risks in an Age of Cybernetic Reproduction 165(18) Joost van Loon PART IV P(I)aying for Futures Worlds in Action: Information, Instantaneity and Global Futures Trading 183(15) Deirdre Boden Discourses of Risk and Utopia 198(13) Ruth Levitas Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics and Research Programmes 211(19) Ulrich Beck Index 230
My primary expertise is in the area of social and socio-environmental time. I have developed this perspective over the last three decades during which I have worked the time dimension into the following areas of conceptual and empirical social science research: culture, education, environment, environmental economics, food, globalisation, gender, health, international relations, management, media, risk, technological innovation, transport and work. Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich. He is the author of Counterpoison (1991) and Ecological Enlightenment (1992).
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