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RISK, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY Piet Strydom

RISK, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY By Piet Strydom

RISK, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY by Piet Strydom

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Offers an overview and analysis of nuclear, global environmental and biotechnological dangers, threats and hazards in the context of public debates about risk. This book considers what impact these risks and debates are having on society, transforming underlying cultural assumptions but also public communication, social institutions.

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RISK, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY by Piet Strydom

Risk, Environment and Society is an inventive and core text within the framework of risk studies, and should be read first by any scholar interrested in that field. If you are a newcomer in that field, this is the book to begin with, because it is clear and extensive. ... Among recent books, I can't think of a more useful scholarly achievement in risk studies, making Piet Strydom one of the true leading theorists in his discipline.
Sociological Research On-Line

  • How and why have the closed expert debates of past decades become an open public discourse about nuclear, environmental and biotechnological risks?
  • What can a cultural and institutional analysis reveal about risks and their social construction?
  • Is it possible to develop a new critical theory of the risk society?
This book offers an overview and analysis of nuclear, global environmental and biotechnological dangers, threats and hazards in the context of public debates about risk from the 1950s to the present. It considers what impact these risks and debates are having on society, transforming underlying cultural assumptions (for example about nature) but also public communication, social institutions, and even the way society is organized. Piet Strydom reconstructs public debates and social scientific theories to provide a fresh approach to the risk society. From this comes a new theoretical perspective for studying the emerging social conditions of the twenty-first century. The result is a penetrating and essential text for students and researchers across a range of areas including sociology, environmental studies, politics, and cultural and communications studies.

About Piet Strydom

Piet Strydom is Statutory Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Cork. He is a former founder-director of the Centre for European Social Research, Cork, where he was responsible for a variety of collaborative EU research projects. Having published noted articles in journals such as Political Studies, Theory, Culture and Society, Philosophy and Social Criticism, European Journal of Social Theory and Current Sociology, he most recently presented his research programme in a major work entitled Discourse and Knowledge (2000).

Table of Contents

Series editor's foreword
Preface & acknowledgements
Introduction

Part one: problems, debates, frameworks and theories

The risk discourse
the contemporary concern with risk
Background theories and frameworks of understanding
Major theoretical directions

Part two: cultural and institutional analysis

Risk
what is it?
Societal production of risk
society as laboratory
Discursive construction of risk
the new public sphere
Consensus and conflict in the risk society

Part three: rethinking the risk society

Towards a new critical theory
Conclusion
References
Index.

Additional information

GOR001903008
9780335207831
0335207839
RISK, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY by Piet Strydom
Piet Strydom
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Open University Press
20020516
208
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