Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century
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Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century

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Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century

About this book

Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century provides a groundbreaking new analysis of the increasingly important relationship between risk and widening inequalities. The massive, and often unequal, impacts of contemporary risks are recognized widely in popular discussions – be it the fall-out from the 2008 financial crisis or Hurricane Katrina – yet there is a distinct neglect in social science of the overall systemic impacts of these risks for increasing inequalities. This book moves beyond this lacuna to identify novel intersections of risk and inequalities. It shows how key processes associated with risk society – the social production and distribution of risks as side-effects – are intensifying inequalities in fundamental ways. In articulating how risk is intensifying both the social sources of suffering of the least advantaged and the power of the most advantaged, this book realizes a significant rethinking of risk, power, and inequalities in contemporary society.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781137495563
eBook ISBN
9781137495570
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Macroeconomics
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Which Risk Society, and for Whom?
  8. 2 The Sociology of Risk and the Ineliminability of Realism
  9. 3 Risk Society and Systematic Social Theory
  10. 4 Thinking with Bourdieu, Marx, and Weber to Analyse Contemporary Inequalities and Class
  11. 5 Risk Society and the Distribution of Bads
  12. 6 Risk Illusion and Organized Irresponsibility in Contemporary Finance
  13. 7 Conclusion: Beyond the Quiet Politics of Risk
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index