The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited  

Oleh:

Beck, Ulrich

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory, Culture & Society vol. 19 no. 4 (Agu. 2002), page 39–55.
Topik: construction of terrorist enemy images; cosmopolitan state; methodological cosmopolitanism; methodological nationalism
Fulltext: 39TCAS194.pdf (70.96KB)

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This article differentiates between three different axes of conflict in world risk society. The first axis is that of ecological conflicts, which are by their very essence global. The second is global financial crises, which, in a first stage, can be individualized and nationalized. And the third, which suddenly broke upon us on September 11th, is the threat of transnational terror networks, which empowers governments and states. Two sets of implications are drawn: first, there are the political dynamics of world risk society. In an age where trust and faith in God, class and progress have largely disappeared, humanity's common fear has proved the last – ambivalent –resource for making new bonds. Second, the methodological nationalism that preoccupies the sociological imagination has to be overcome and 'methodological cosmopolitism' has to be created.

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