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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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"This splendid and very innovative book is a major contribution to our understanding of the implications of Beck's enormously important work." - William Outhwaite, Newcastle University, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dean Curran is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research interests include social theory, risk, and class.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century
Authors: Dean Curran
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137495570
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49556-3Published: 04 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69759-5Published: 12 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49557-0Published: 13 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 185
Topics: Social Theory, Development Aid, Sociology, general, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Environmental Sociology