RISK, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY by Piet Strydom
This work offers an overview and analysis of nuclear, global environmental and biotechnological dangers, threats and hazards in the context of public debates about risk from the 1950s to the present. It considers what impact these risks and debates are having on society, transforming underlying cultural assumptions (for example about nature) but also public communication, social institutions, and even the way society is organized. Piet Strydom reconstructs public debates and social scientific theories to provide a fresh approach to the risk society. From this comes a new theoretical perspective for studying the emerging social conditions of the 21st century. The result is a valuable text for students and researchers across a range of areas including sociology, environmental studies, politics, and cultural and communications studies.
Piet Strydom is Statutory Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Cork. He is a former founder-director of the Centre for European Social Research, Cork, where he was responsible for a variety of collaborative EU research projects. Having published noted articles in journals such as Political Studies, Theory, Culture and Society, Philosophy and Social Criticism, European Journal of Social Theory and Current Sociology, he most recently presented his research programme in a major work entitled Discourse and Knowledge (2000).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780335207831 |
| ISBN 10 | 0335207839 |
| Title | RISK, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY |
| Author | Piet Strydom |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open University Press |
| Year published | 2002-05-16 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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