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From the Risk Society to COVID-19: Analysis of Beck's Risk Society – Towards a New Modernity

From the Risk Society to COVID-19: Analysis of Beck's Risk Society – Towards a New Modernity

Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781668452790|ISBN10: 1668452790|EISBN13: 9781668452813
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5279-0.ch015
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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel. "From the Risk Society to COVID-19: Analysis of Beck's Risk Society – Towards a New Modernity." Global Risk and Contingency Management Research in Times of Crisis, edited by Narasimha Rao Vajjhala and Kenneth David Strang, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 281-294. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5279-0.ch015

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Korstanje, M. E. (2022). From the Risk Society to COVID-19: Analysis of Beck's Risk Society – Towards a New Modernity. In N. Vajjhala & K. Strang (Eds.), Global Risk and Contingency Management Research in Times of Crisis (pp. 281-294). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5279-0.ch015

Chicago

Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel. "From the Risk Society to COVID-19: Analysis of Beck's Risk Society – Towards a New Modernity." In Global Risk and Contingency Management Research in Times of Crisis, edited by Narasimha Rao Vajjhala and Kenneth David Strang, 281-294. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5279-0.ch015

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Abstract

Ulrich Beck, a German sociologist who does not need prior presentation, cast his diagnosis of risk society as a new emerging ethos where social class and hierarchies blurred before the figure of risk. Although he shed light on the post-industrial society of the 1990s, today, the society he studied seems pretty different. Hence, a new fresh insight should be placed. This chapter introduces readers to the conceptual foundations of Thana Capitalism, as it was critically debated in the author's book The Rise of Thana Capitalism and Tourism. The risk society sets the pace for a new facet of capitalism where the other´s pain remains the main commodity to exchange. Far from being a more egalitarian society, as Beck said, in the days of Thana capitalism, a ruling elite governs the destiny of a precaritized workforce. The novel The Hunger Games represents perfectly how this society works. Additionally, the author brings some reflection on the connection of Thana capitalism and the spectacle beyond the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

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