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“High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.”

Anthony Giddens

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The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

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The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but…

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High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk:…

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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system…

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“Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the ‘other God that failed’ alongside Communism and radical…

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Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon…

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Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available…

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The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

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The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in…

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The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

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To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit…

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The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

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