Ulrich Beck
Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Munich and the London School of Economics and Political Science
A Selected Bibliography
October 6, 2009
Books 2000-2009
Beck, Ulrich. 2009. World at risk. Cambridge, UK ;Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Lamont | HM1101 .B429713 2009
Beck, Ulrich. 2008. Der eigene Gott : Von der Friedensfähigkeit und dem Gewaltpotential der Religionen. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Weltreligionen.
Widener | BL65.V55 B43 2008x
Beck, Ulrich. 2008. Weltrisikogesellschaft : auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Sicherheit.1. Aufl. ed. Vol. 4038. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.
Widener | HM1101 .B44 2008
Beck, Ulrich, and Grande, Edgar, 1956-. 2007. Cosmopolitan Europe. Cambridge ;Malden, Mass.: Polity Press.
Widener | JZ1308 .B4313 2006x
Beck, Ulrich. 2006. The cosmopolitan vision. Cambridge, UK ;Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Widener | JZ1308 .B4313 2006x
Zimmerli, Walther C. (. C., 1945-, Wolf, Stefan, and Beck, Ulrich. 2006. Spurwechsel : Wirtschaft weiter denken.1. Aufl. ed. Hamburg: Murmann.
Widener | HB175 .S78 2006
Beck, Ulrich. 2005. Power in the global age : a new global political economy. Cambridge, UK ;Malden, MA: Polity.
Widener | JZ1305 .B4313 2005x
Beck, Ulrich. 2005. Was zur Wahl steht.1. Aufl. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Widener | JN3971.A95 B43 2005
Beck, Ulrich. 2004. Der kosmopolitische Blick, oder, Krieg ist Frieden.1. Aufl., Originalausg. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Widener | JZ1308 .B43 2004, JZ1308 .B43 2004
Beck, Ulrich, and Willms, Johannes, 1948-. 2004. Conversations with Ulrich Beck. Cambridge, UK :Malden, MA: Polity Press in association with Blackwell ;Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Pub.
Widener | HM1266 .B42513 2004
Beck, Ulrich, and Grande, Edgar, 1956-. 2004. Das kosmopolitische Europa : Gesellschaft und Politik in der zweiten Moderne.1. Aufl., Originalausg. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Widener | JN30 .B43 2004, JN30 .B43 2004
Beck, Ulrich, and Lau, Christoph, 1947-. 2004. Entgrenzung und Entscheidung : was ist neu an der Theorie reflexiver Modernisierung?1. Aufl., Originalausg. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Widener | D862 .E67 2004, D862 .E67 2004
Mythen, Gabe. 2004. Ulrich Beck : a critical introduction to the risk society. London ;Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.
Widener | HM1101 .M98 2004
Beck, Ulrich, Sznaider, Natan, 1954-, and Winter, Rainer, 1960-. 2003. Global America? : the cultural consequences of globalization. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Widener | JZ1318 .G554 2003x
Beck, Ulrich, Sznaider, Natan, 1954-, and Winter, Rainer, 1960-. 2003. Globales Amerika? : die kulturellen Folgen der Globalisierung. Vol. Bd. 4. Bielefeld: Transcript.
Widener | JZ1318 .G55415 2003
Beck, Ulrich. 2002. Macht und Gegenmacht im globalen Zeitalter : neue weltpolitische Ökonomie.1. Aufl. ed. Frankurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Widener | JZ1305 .B43 2002
Beck, Ulrich, and Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth. 2002. Individualization : institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences. London ;Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE.
Widener | HM1276 .B43 2002
Fiebig, Johannes, and Beck, Ulrich. 2001. Abschied vom Ego-Kult : die neue soziale Offenheit.Originalausg. ed. Krummwisch bei Kiel: Königsfurt.
Widener | HM761 .A27 2001
Beck, Ulrich, and Bonss, Wolfgang. 2001. Die Modernisierung der Moderne.1. Aufl. ed. Vol. 1508. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Widener | HN17.5 .M63 2001x
Schönherr-Mann, Hans-Martin, 1952-, and Beck, Ulrich. 2000. Ethik des Denkens. München: Fink.
Widener | BJ319 .E7852 2000x
Adam, Barbara, 1945-, Beck, Ulrich, and Loon, Joost v. 2000. The risk society and beyond : critical issues for social theory. London ;Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE.
Widener | HM1101 .R593 2000
Beck, Ulrich. 2000. The brave new world of work. Cambridge, UK :Malden, MA: Polity Press ;Blackwell.
Widener | HD4901 .B393 2000
Beck, Ulrich. 2000. What is globalization? Cambridge, UK :Malden, MA: Polity Press ;Blackwell.
Widener | HF1359 .B413 2000
Beck, Ulrich. 2000. Die Zukunft der Arbeit und Demokratie.1. Aufl. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Widener | HD4811 .Z85 2000
Beck, Ulrich, and Willms, Johannes, 1948-. 2000. Freiheit oder Kapitalismus : Gesellschaft neu denken. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Widener | HM271 .B42 2000
Beck, Ulrich, and Kieserling, André. 2000. Ortsbestimmungen der Soziologie : wie die kommende Generation Gesellschaftswissenschaften betreiben will.1. Aufl. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Widener | HM590 .O77 2000
Articles
Abraham, Thomas. "Risk and Outbreak Communication: Lessons from Alternative Paradigms." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 87.8 (2009): 604-7.
Risk communication guidelines widely used in public health are based on the psychometric paradigm of risk, which focuses on risk perception at the level of individuals. However, infectious disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies are more than public health events and occur in a highly charged political, social and economic environment. This study examines other sociological and cultural approaches from scholars such as Ulrich Beck and Mary Douglas for insights on how to communicate in such environments.
Albrow, Martin. "Power in the Global Age." International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Sage) 48.5 (2007): 443-7.
The article reviews the book "Power in the Global Age," by Ulrich Beck.
Aradau, Claudia, and Rens van Munster. "Governing Terrorism through Risk: Taking Precautions, (Un)Knowing the Future." European Journal of International Relations 13.1 (2007): 89-115.
The events of 9/11 appeared to make good on Ulrich Beck's claim that we are now living in a (global) risk society. Examining what it means to ‘govern through risk’, this article departs from Beck's thesis of risk society and its appropriation in security studies.
Atkinson, Will. "Beck, Individualization and the Death of Class: A Critique." British Journal of Sociology 58.3 (2007): 349-66.
Ulrich Beck has argued that the changing logic of distribution and, more importantly, the ‘individualization’ of social processes in reflexive modernity have killed off the concept of social class and rendered the analysis of its effects a flawed endeavour.
Benn, Suzanne, Paul Brown, and Andrea North-Samardzic. "A Commentary on Decision-Making and Organisational Legitimacy in the Risk Society." Journal of environmental management 90.4 (2009): 1655-62.
Key concepts of Risk Society as elaborated by Ulrich Beck and others (Beck, U., 1992 (trans. Mark Ritter).
Binkley, Sam. "Governmentality, Temporality and Practice: From the Individualization of Risk to the 'Contradictory Movements of the Soul'." Time & Society 18.1 (2009): 86-105.
Reflexive temporalities are inscribed through what Ulrich Beck has termed the 'individualization of risk'.
Borne, Gregory. "Achieving Sustainable Lifestyles Or Encouraging a Counter-Reflexivity: Exploring Motivations for Sustainability in a Mediated Risk Society." Local Environment 14.1 (2009): 93-107.
Ulrich Beck's World Risk Society is becoming an increasingly relevant analysis of contemporary human/environment interaction.
Bröer, Christian. "Aircraft Noise and Risk Politics." Health, Risk & Society 9.1 (2007): 37-52.
In this paper aircraft noise annoyance is interpreted from the perspective of risk society theory as described by Ulrich Beck.
Bullen, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth Parsons. "Dystopian Visions of Global Capitalism: Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines and M.T Anderson’s Feed." Children's Literature in Education 38.2 (2007): 127-39.
This article examines Philip Reeve’s novel for children, Mortal Engines, and M.T. Anderson’s young adult novel, Feed, by assessing these dystopias as prototypical texts of what Ulrich Beck calls risk society.
Chan, Raymond K. H. "Risk, Reflexivity and Sub-Politics: Environmental Politics in Hong Kong." Asian Journal of Political Science 16.3 (2008): 260-75.
This paper will borrow Ulrich Beck's concepts of risk, reflexivity and sub-politics to analyse the new social movement that addresses air quality in Hong Kong.
Curtis, Sarah. "How can we Address Health Inequality through Healthy Public Policy in Europe?" European Urban & Regional Studies 15.4 (2008): 293-305.
In many parts of the world, there is growing commitment to the idea that public policy and public interventions in all domains (not only the medical and public health sector) should be scrutinized in terms of their potential impact on public health for the populations affected. Prospective Health Impact Assessment (HIA) considers the likely significance of these potential public health outcomes. This article considers some examples of strategies which are being used in European countries to facilitate HIA. These are interpreted in terms of theories of a world risk society, put forward by Ulrich Beck.
Donoghue, Jane. "Antisocial Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) in Britain Contextualizing Risk and Reflexive Modernization." Sociology 42.2 (2008): 337-55.
This article proposes a (re)consideration of antisocial behaviour control informed by an analysis of the seminal work of sociologists of 'reflexive modernity' (Beck, 1992, 1994; Giddens, 1990, 1991; Lash, 1994).
"Editor's Note." Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory 16.1 (2009): 1-2.
An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses an article on risk by Ulrich Beck, an article on the political philosophers Jacques Derrida and John Rawls, by Johan Van Der Walt, and an article on transnational solidarity on human rights issues by Jeffrey Flynn.
Edwards, Kate. "For a Geohistorical Cosmopolitanism: Postcolonial State Strategies, Cosmopolitan Communities, and the Production of the 'British', 'Overseas', 'Non-Resident', and 'Global' Indian." Environment & Planning D: Society & Space 26.3 (2008): 444-63.
In this paper I seek to contribute to the burgeoning literature on cosmopolitanism by drawing on Ulrich Beck's work on the cosmopolitan implications of globalization.
Ekberg, Merryn. "The Parameters of the Risk Society: A Review and Exploration." Current Sociology 55.3 (2007): 343-66.
This article offers a review and exploration of the parameters of the risk society. The primary focus is on the theoretical works of German sociologist Ulrich Beck and British sociologist Anthony Giddens, and in particular, their claim that we are living in a second, reflexive age of modernity, or risk society, characterized by an omnipresence of low probability-high consequence technological risks.
Elbe, Stefan. "Risking Lives: AIDS, Security and Three Concepts of Risk." Security Dialogue 39.2 (2008): 177-98.
This article analyses the conjunctures of risk and security that have recently emerged in the securitization of HIV/AIDS. Although these partially corroborate Ulrich Beck's notion of risk society, important elements of the securitization of HIV/AIDS resist his understanding of risk as a 'danger of modernization'.
Elchardus, Mark. "Self-Control as Social Control: The Emergence of Symbolic Society." Poetics 37.2 (2009): 146-61.
Abstract: Accepting Ulrich Beck''s and Anthony Giddens’ diagnosis of contemporary society, many sociologists have equated post-tradition with reflexive modernization and with a social order characterized by a strong degree of individualization.
Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste. "Beck Back in the 19th Century: Towards a Genealogy of Risk Society." History & Technology 23.4 (2007): 333-50.
This article aims at historicizing the 'risk society' thesis (Ulrich Beck).
Geldens, Paula M., and Lisa Bourke. "Identity, Uncertainty and Responsibility: Privileging Place in a Risk Society." Children's Geographies 6.3 (2008): 281-94.
This paper considers Ulrich Beck's 'risk society' theses as a framework for exploring the experiences of 85 young residents of a regional Australian centre.
Gille, Zsuzsa. "Cosmopolitan Vision." American Journal of Sociology 113.1 (2007): 264-6.
A review is presented of the book "Cosmopolitan Vision," by Ulrich Beck.
Hier, Sean P. "Transformative Democracy in the Age of Second Modernity: Cosmopolitanization, Communicative Agency and the Reflexive Subject." New Media & Society 10.1 (2008): 27-44.
While international scholarly momentum continues to build around Ulrich Beck's ideas on risk, politics and reflexivity, his commentary on transformative democracy is only beginning to attract scholarly interest.
Hudson, Barbara. "Difference, Diversity and Criminology." Theoretical Criminology 12.3 (2008): 275-92.
This article argues that criminology has not moved sufficiently from the construction of a series of different 'others', towards an epistemology of diversity. The emerging theory of cosmopolitanism is advocated as more consistent with the empirical realities of diversity and globalization than the identity/difference logic of modernity. Cosmopolitanism emphasizes the universality of rights because of humans' common possession of the earth, and proposes the grounding of justice on the need to respond to strangers without hostility. As well as this normative cosmopolitanism, methodological cosmopolitanism has been espoused in recent works by Ulrich Beck and Paul Gilroy.
Jarvis, Darryl S. L. "Risk, Globalisation and the State: A Critical Appraisal of Ulrich Beck and the World Risk Society Thesis." Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations 21.1 (2007): 23-46.
Ulrich Beck has been one of the foremost sociologists of the last few decades, single-handedly promoting the concept of risk and risk research in contemporary sociology and social theory.
Jensen, Mette, and Anders Blok. "Pesticides in the Risk Society: The View from Everyday Life." Current Sociology 56.5 (2008): 757-78.
Ulrich Beck's diagnosis in his already classic book Risk Society addressed, when it was first published in 1986, a number of new and important issues concerning environment and society.
Kearnes, Matthew. "Spotlight on … Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity by Ulrich Beck." Geography 93.2 (2008): 122-3.
The article reports on the concept of risk society by Ulrich Beck. Beck suggests that new type of risks are increasingly produced through normal conditions. As such the experience of risk is now central to the everyday experience of modern society.
Kendall, Gavin. "Cosmopolitan Europe." Journal of Sociology 45.2 (2009): 224-5.
The article reviews the book "Cosmopolitan Europe," by Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande.
Martell, Luke. "Beck's Cosmopolitan Politics." Contemporary Politics 14.2 (2008): 129-43.
This article evaluates Ulrich Beck's cosmopolitan global politics.
---. "Global Inequality, Human Rights and Power: A Critique of Ulrich Beck's Cosmopolitanism." Critical Sociology 35.2 (2009): 253-72.
This article is a critique of Ulrich Beck's advocacy of a cosmopolitan approach to global inequality and human rights.
Mehta, Michael D. "Nanotechnology and the Developing World: Lab-on-Chip Technology for Health and Environmental Applications." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 28.5 (2008): 400-7.
This article argues that advances in nanotechnology in general, and lab-on-chip technology in particular, have the potential to benefit the developing world in its quest to control risks to human health and the environment. Based on the "risk society" thesis of Ulrich Beck, it is argued that the developed world must realign its science and technology policy priorities to meet some of the most pressing needs of humanity.
Morrison, Andrew. "'I can't do any More Education': Class, Individualisation and Educational Decision-Making." Journal of Vocational Education & Training 60.4 (2008): 349-62.
This paper, drawing upon a recent study of youth post-compulsory educational and occupational decision-making, argues for a culturalist perspective to understand the persistence of class-based inequalities within VET. The paper begins by outlining two broadly distinct perspectives within current research into youth: an 'individualist' approach influenced by the work of Ulrich Beck and a 'culturalist' approach influenced by Pierre Bourdieu.
Mulinari, Diana, and Kerstin Sandell. "A Feminist Re-Reading of Theories of Late Modernity: Beck, Giddens and the Location of Gender." Critical Sociology 35.4 (2009): 494-507.
This article is a critical reappraisal of the understandings of gender and the location of women within theories of late modernity. These theories, as articulated by Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck, have gained a wide use, not the least since they claim to account for changes in intimate relations.
Murray, Michael. "Waste Management in Ireland: Discourses of Domination in an (Un)Reflexive Society." Sociological Review 57.1 (2009): 81-101.
Ulrich Beck's highly influential writings on Reflexive Modernity promise a seismic social transformation, where risks such as waste can be negotiated through processes of self-confrontation and democratisation.
Mythen, Gabe. "Reappraising the Risk Society Thesis: Telescopic Sight Or Myopic Vision?" Current Sociology 55.6 (2007): 793-813.
In the last decade of the 20th century, Ulrich Beck's groundbreaking Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity created a ripple effect within academia, generating an upsurge of interest in the concept of risk.
Redden, Guy. "Economy and Reflexivity in Makeover Television." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 22.4 (2008): 485-94.
In this article the author examines certain aspects of makeover television programs. At issue is the notion that such programs allow the participants to develop enhanced powers of self-perception that lead to positive changes in the way they lead their lives. In support of his contention the author cites the theories of "reflexive modernization" and "individualization" advocated by sociologists Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. The self-improvement factors in a number reality television programs broadcast in Great Britain are examined.
Rosamond, Ben. "Open Political Science, Methodological Nationalism and European Union Studies." Government & Opposition 43.4 (2008): 599-612.
A review is presented of books including "Cosmopolitan Europe," by Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande, "Democracy in Europe: The EU & National Polities," by Vivien A. Schmidt, and "Democratic Citizenship & the European Union," by Albert Weale.
Rosario, Teresita Cruz-Del. "Risky Riparianism: Cooperative Water Governance in Central Asia." Australian Journal of International Affairs 63.3 (2009): 404-15.
Using the concept of risk society as developed by Ulrich Beck, this article illustrates how shared risk among Central Asian countries provides the impetus for developing water governance mechanisms.
Skrbis, Zlatko. "Cosmopolitan Vision." Journal of Sociology 44.1 (2008): 102-4.
The article reviews the book "COSMOPOLITAN VISION," by Ulrich Beck.
Smith, David F. "Food Panics in History: Corned Beef, Typhoid and "Risk Society"." Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 61.7 (2007): 566-70.
An outline of the ‘risk society’ thesis of the German social theorist Ulrich Beck is given, and some points that he has taken from food safety examples are discussed.
Smith, William. "A Cosmopolitan Sociology: Ulrich Beck's Trilogy on the Global Age." Global Networks 8.2 (2008): 253-9.
This article reviews the books "Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy," by U. Beck, "Cosmopolitan Vision," by U. Beck, and "Cosmopolitan Europe," by U. Beck and E. Grande.
Stråth, Bo. "Cosmopolitan Europe." Insight Turkey 11.2 (2009): 149-51.
The article reviews the book "Cosmopolitan Europe," by Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande.
Throne-Holst, Harald, and Eivind Stø. "Who should be Precautionary? Governance of Nanotechnology in the Risk Society." Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 20.1 (2008): 99-112.
In at least two ways the risk society of Ulrich Beck seems highly relevant for the precautionary principle within nanotechnologies:
Williams, M. J. "(in)Security Studies, Reflexive Modernization and the Risk Society." Cooperation & Conflict 43.1 (2008): 57-79.
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the overwhelming challenge that confronts Western policy-makers is the management of diverse, amorphous and qualitative security risks, rather than the fixed, quantifiable threats of yesteryear. As such, policy-makers have had to move from a reactive to a more proactive mindset, which ultimately challenges established international institutions and norms of action. This change has been seen at both the domestic and international levels and gained prominence with sociologist Ulrich Beck's Risk Society thesis in the early 1990s.
Woodman, Dan. "The Mysterious Case of the Pervasive Choice Biography: Ulrich Beck, structure/agency, and the Middling State of Theory in the Sociology of Youth." Journal of Youth Studies 12.3 (2009): 243-56.
This paper explores the emergence of the concept of choice biography, as it is linked to the work of Ulrich Beck, in youth research.