RiskISBN: 978-0-7456-4099-0
Paperback
224 pages
April 2009, Polity
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Health, Risk & Society
"This treatise is particularly successful for the way that it
succeeds in bringing together discussion of how risk features in
social and political lives with theoretical analyses and empirical
studies of risk."
Sociology
"This book, by one of the rising stars of sociology,
demonstrates that without the sociology of risk it is impossible to
understand the ambivalences and uncertainties of our time."
Ulrich Beck, University of Munich
"In the context of today's global financial meltdown Jakob
Arnoldi's Risk is a must read. It is at the same time an
introduction to risk and the most comprehensive account available.
It addresses risk in war, global geo-politics, health, environment
and general 'living on the edge'. It comprises an original theory
of knowledge in today's risk societies. Arnoldi tells us knowledge
is possible, but that this must remain uncertain knowledge."
Scott Lash, University of London
"A wide-ranging and thorough appraisal of the impacts and
effects of risk in the social sciences and, more broadly, society
at large. This timely and authoritative book melds together
theoretical perspectives and contemporary risk issues in a
progressive and enlightening way."
Gabe Mythen, University of Liverpool