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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.
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How Well Does Risk Society Speak Beyond the Global North?
Agnes Kneitz questions the global applicability of Beck’s risk theory, emphasizing culturally rooted perceptions and the limits of a Western framework.
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The Multiple Faces of Riskiness
Diana Mincyte analyzes how post-socialist risk discourses in Eastern Europe deflected attention from systemic upheaval, legitimizing capitalism while obscuring structural causes.
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Reconciling Theory and Practice: Transdisciplinary Insights from an Indigenous Case Study
In this essay, Angela Kreutz explores a transdisciplinary approach through a case study.
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Transdisciplinarity: Co-Creation of Knowledge for the Future
In the essay, Claudia R. Binder highlights the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to build knowledge for the future.
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Toward a Problem-Centered Approach to Environmental Studies: Challenges and Prospects
In the essay, Thomas Lekan advocates for a problem-centered approach to foster better scholarship and collaboration.
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The Simplicity Complex
SueEllen Campbell argues that effective simplification is needed to promote high-quality information.