Ecological Enlightenment: Essays On The Politics Of The Risk Society

Beck examines the politics of the risk society. He starts from the assumption that the ecological issue, considered politically and sociologically, is a systematic, legalised violation of fundamental civil rights and, from this position, adduces that the ecological conflict, politically speaking, is the successor to the industrial conflict. One of his central concerns is to illustrate just how the establishment, but expressing as much concern over the environmental issues as the radical groups who first raised them, has endeavoured to take over the debate and then effectively stifled it. Beck argues that the vested interests have developed a strategy of avoiding discussion of accountability by bringing mega-risks to the foreground so that containable risks are hidden in their shadow. He concludes by arguing that only by bringing the discussion back to the accountability issue as informed by social sciences can the political initiative be wrested back from the vested interests.

Ecological Enlightenment: Essays on the Politics of the Risk Society

Science & Math

ulrich-beck

Earth Sciences

Humanities Pr

Risikogesellschaft: Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne (Edition Suhrkamp) (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Suhrkamp

Weltrisikogesellschaft

Según Ulrich Beck, el futuro del trabajo en Europa se puede ver ya materializado en Brasil: en muy pocos años, tan sólo uno de cada dos empleados tendrá un puesto de trabajo fijo a tiempo completo. La otra mitad, prosigue, deberá arreglárselas batallando con las más precarias condiciones laborales. Así las cosas, es evidente que los cimientos del Estado asistencial y de la propia democracia corren un grave peligro. Beck sostiene que necesitamos un nuevo modelo social que recoja el testigo de la actual sociedad laboral, cada vez más deteriorada. Y afirma que el mayor reto del futuro es que la sociedad civil se comprometa y luche por hacer realidad este nuevo modelo social.

Un nuevo mundo feliz: La precariedad del trabajo en la era de la globalización (Bolsillo/ Pocket) (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Booket

Europa felix. Il vecchio continente e il nuovo mercato del lavoro

carocci

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