Handbook on Risk and Inequality

Edited by Dean Curran

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This unique Handbook charts shifts in the relationship between risks and inequalities over the last few decades, analysing how inequalities shape risk and how risks condition and intensify inequalities. Expert contributors examine the impacts of environmental, financial, social, urban, economic, and digital risks on inequalities, at both national and global levels.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
ISBN: 9781788972253
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Risk and Inequality , pp 1-15

Dean Curran

Ch 2 Finance, risk, and inequality , pp 17-39

Thibault Darcillon

Ch 3 Dimensions of risk and environmental inequality , pp 40-52

David N. Pellow

Ch 4 Risk and (welfare state) politics , pp 53-69

Philipp Rehm

Ch 5 Changing risks, individualisation and inequality in a recast welfare state , pp 70-87

Klaus Rasborg

Ch 6 Digital risk and inequality , pp 88-105

Elizabeth Cameron and Dean Curran

Ch 7 Actor, structure and inequality: an intersectional perspective of risk , pp 107-127

Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson and Susanna Öhman

Ch 8 Risk and new realities: social ontology, expertise and individualization in the risk society , pp 128-142

Philip Walsh

Ch 9 Corporations, class and the normalization of risk , pp 143-162

Laureen Snider and Steven Bittle

Ch 10 Risk and trust: ethnomethodological orientations to risk theorizing , pp 163-177

Patrick G. Watson

Ch 11 Inequality rising: the gendered impacts of precarious labor and financialization , pp 179-193

Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar and Aleena Shafique

Ch 12 Beyond the spirit of the new urban crisis: risk-class and resonance , pp 194-232

David Tyfield

Ch 13 Science, food, and risk: ecological disasters and social inequality under the GMO regime , pp 233-246

Md Saidul Islam

Ch 14 Risk society and epistemic inequality: rising voices from the Global South in global governance , pp 247-260

Joy Y. Zhang

Ch 15 The political economy of climate vulnerability: searching for common ground in a retrotopian world , pp 261-270

David Champagne

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