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Green Me Up, JJ: Advice for Greenies in a Complicated World
Jenny Price writes to her nephew Jake, using humor to connect his love of frisbee with everyday environmental responsibility and practical actions.
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Dear Alyssum
Elin Kelsey addresses concerns about motherhood amid environmental challenges, emphasizing resilience and the power of renewal.
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Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters
How can we best influence and enact a shift beyond “doom and gloom” when we talk about the environment? The letters in this Perspectives volume are responses to this dilemma. Through an exploration of new environmental narratives, this volume aims to stimulate readers to emotionally reflect on how we can embrace hope and resilience in our stories about the environment.
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Historicizing Risk
In “Historicizing Risk,” historian Lawrence Culver explores Ulrich Beck’s theories on the nature of risk on a temporal scale, and asks how awareness and perceptions of risk changed from the “first” modernity to now, and how that relates to the global issue of climate change.
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On the Role of Natural Hazards and Catastrophes
Historian Uwe Lübken examines how the perception of natural hazards and catastrophes shifts from being historically seen as “Acts of God” to now being viewed as side effects of modernization and a social responsibility.
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Compressed Cosmopolitanization
In her personal essay “Compressed Cosmopolitanization,” Stefania Gallini’s recounts her feelings of dissonance of joining a reading group focused on risk and Ulrich Beck’s work in safe Munich, while coming from the megalopolis of Bogotá, where risk is a daily reality.
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Market Solutions?
Gordon Winder’s “Market Solutions?” explores neoliberal market solutions to risk within the context of Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society and his personal conversation with the latter.
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Playing with Risk
Gijs Mom illustrates how risk can be thrilling and playful, challenging Ulrich Beck’s fear-centered view.
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Enforced Cosmopolitanization and the Staging of Risks
Heike Egner critiques both the pessimism and idealism in Ulrich Beck’s risk theory, highlighting the limits of global cooperation and the role of science in amplifying risk.
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Risk and Power
Cheryl Lousley critiques Beck’s abstract vision of global risk and cosmopolitanism for overlooking power dynamics essential to environmental justice.