Denk, Albert
Published in
Frontiers in Political Science
The aim of this article is to highlight and conceptualize key aspects of social closures that impact the German nuclear waste management case. According to the German legislator, the public must be involved in the search for a final repository for high-level radioactive waste. De facto, however, almost the entire population of Germany is excluded. ...
Ajana, Btihaj Engstler, Elena Ismail, Anas Kousta, Marina
Published in
Social Sciences Information. Information Sur Les Sciences Sociales
In response to the global outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, many countries around the world have rushed to develop and implement various mechanisms, including vaccination passports, to contain the spread of the virus and manage its significant impact on heath and society. COVID-19 passports have been promoted as a way of speeding society’s return...
Marcus, Gustaf
This article studies mediated erotic content, especially pornography, as a form of worlding in Michel Houellebecq's work. Whereas love creates a space of alterity, pornography paradoxically combines the most intimate spatiality of the body with ever-expanding technological systems and global forms of mediation. This short-circuiting of space points...
Hoas, Niklas
Recent research is largely concordant in that the core roles of the military instrument has expanded after the end of the cold war to include peacetime support to the nation.This study examines the reach a security policy transformation has in ex-plaining this role for the Swedish armed forces. It is done through at deduc-tive approach by examining...
Gomez Grgić, Tit
Diplomsko delo skuša osvetliti duhovnost, vero in njeno mesto v filozofiji. Znotraj dela se posvetim Etty Hillesum, ki je zame odskočna deska v morje duhovnih praks, čez katero pogledam na druge duhovne mislece ter jih poskušam povezati z mislijo in elanom Etty Hillesum. Tako se sprehodim čez Ulricha Becka, saj je njegova knjiga Lastni Bog glavna i...
Jong, Abbas
Published in
Frontiers in Sociology
Current global crises and threats have revealed the growing implications of Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society. Rather than being a theory of risk, risk society theory is more a social theory of the new social world and modernity. Risk society theory encompasses a new social ontology of the social in the era of uncertainties and crises. Beck also...
Leblond, Nicolas
International audience
Mythen, Gabe
Published in
Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
In terms of the evolution of sociological theory, it is difficult to overstate the impact of Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Aside from achieving voluminous sales and mass citations, the book is one of few academic monographs that can lay claim to transforming the ways in which people understand the world and their own experiences within it....
thomas, garance
International audience
Charrasse, Fanny
Longtemps, dans les sociétés dites « développées », des pratiques magico-traditionnelles telles que le chamanisme, la voyance ou le magnétisme ont été disqualifiées, voire réprimées, au motif de leur caractère apparemment inconciliable avec la conception « moderne » de la science. Depuis quelques décennies, cependant, ces mêmes pratiques apparaisse...
