connected yet simultaneously “at-risk” societies. Furthermore, our approach across these contributions is unique in that there is an international, as well as local, focus on mobilities in a “dangerous world” from scholars working mainly in Aotearoa New
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Introduction
Understanding Mobilities in a Dangerous World
Gail Adams-Hutcheson, Holly Thorpe, and Catharine Coleborne
Gijs Mom
Automobilism: World Mobility History, 1900–2015 . 3 Ulrich Beck, “World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society? Ecological Questions in a Framework of Manufactured Uncertainties,” Theory, Culture and Society 13, no. 4 (1996): 1–32. 4 Michael Hardt and
Teppo Eskelinen
calculation. In contemporary sociological theory, the concept of risk has been typically used in a more general sense, for instance in the theory of the ‘risk society’ ( Adam et al. 2000 ; Beck 1992 ). Such theories often define risk as something
Mobilities and the Multinatural
A Test Case in India
Thomas Birtchnell
tolerance of animals’ right to mobility in the city also has consequences for the risk society in India and this is particularly obvious in regard to stray dogs ( Figure 3 ). These dogs are culturally neither companion animals nor pests in Indian society
Mobilizing Disability Studies
A Critical Perspective
Kudzai Matereke
hailing the advent of the “new normal,” which was depicted as not the life after , but rather the life lived with , COVID-19. The “new normal” approximates Ulrich Beck's “risk society,” 23 which transforms the ways we understand ourselves, our social
Raili Nugin
Countryside,” Journal of Rural Studies 59 (2018): 163–172. 25 Mimi Sheller and John Urry, “The New Mobilities Paradigm,” Environment and Planning 38, no. 2 (2006): 207–226, here 208. 26 Ulrich Beck, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (London: Sage
Mobile Disasters
Catastrophes in the Age of Manufactured Uncertainty
Steve Matthewman
Ishiwatari, The Great East Japan Earthquake: Learning from Megadisasters (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012), https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18864,2 . 38 Ulrich Beck, “World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society? Ecological Questions in a
Motorcycling in 1980s Athens
Popularization, Representational Politics, and Social Identities
Panagiotis Zestanakis
that humans were living in a novel historical condition in which they were exposed to risks such as environmental pollution, illnesses, and forms of crime that were produced by modernity itself. See Ulrich Beck, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
State of Uncertainty
Educating the First Railroaders in Central Sakha (Yakutiya)
Sigrid Irene Wentzel
.2014.0032 . 26 Harvey and Knox, Roads , 65. 27 Harvey, Jensen, and Morita, “Introduction,” 7. 28 Andy Alaszewski, “Anthropology and Risk: Insights into Uncertainty, Danger and Blame from Other Cultures. A Review Essay,” Health, Risk & Society
From the Auto-mobile to the Driven Subject?
Discursive Assertions of Mobility Futures
Katharina Manderscheid
–114. 29 Paterson, Automobile Politics , 139. 30 Ulrich Beck, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity , vol. 2 (London: Sage, 1992), doi:10.2307/2579937 . 31 Connell and Messerschmidt, “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept”; Anna