Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	D. Curran
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	185
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-49556-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > General
LSN:	1-137-49556-1
Barcode:	9781137495563

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