Summary
Contents
Subject index
What does it mean to live in `risk society'? How does the idea of risk change how we live with each other? Risk currently dominates individual and collective consciousness. Globally, insecurity is related to terrorism, pollution, global epidemics and famine, yet smoking, sunlight and travel have also become major preoccupations. This book provides a powerful and lucid account of risk in society today. Denney critically examines the social construction of risk, by considering a range of social theories, addressing the literature and providing an authoritative guide to the key issues raised. An analysis of the nature of risk to aspects of everyday life – of the meanings which have been assigned to notions of risk – is also considered. Finally, global themes such as terrorism, global regulation governance and developments in international relations are examined. This book will be required reading for students of risk within the fields of Sociology, International Relations and Media, Culture and Communications.
Risk and the New Terrorism
Risk and the New Terrorism
Outline
Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and other strategic targets on 11 September 2001, a new dimension of insecurity and global risk powerfully overshadows concerns about more mundane risks. This chapter examines the contention that a new form of terrorism poses an all-pervasive risk post-11 September. Human rights and ideology will also be discussed in the light of international responses to organised global terrorism.
Conceptualising Terrorism
What constitutes terrorism has formed the basis of a continuous debate among social scientists (Biernatzki, 2002). Official definitions of terrorism emphasise the ‘unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property, to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in the furtherance of political ...
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