Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, a group of scholars reflect on Ulrich Beck’s influential Risk Society (1986). They seek to critically historicize the concept of risk society, considering how it might be a product of its particular time and place as well as what it means for public debate and scholarship in the early twenty-first century.
Cheryl Lousley critiques Beck’s abstract vision of global risk and cosmopolitanism for overlooking power dynamics essential to environmental justice.
Agnes Kneitz questions the global applicability of Beck’s risk theory, emphasizing culturally rooted perceptions and the limits of a Western framework.
Diana Mincyte analyzes how post-socialist risk discourses in Eastern Europe deflected attention from systemic upheaval, legitimizing capitalism while obscuring structural causes.