Citation

Mao Z. Curr. Sociol. 2015; 63(1): 94-99.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0011392114559848

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to respond to Ulrich Beck’s (2014) two crucial concepts –metamorphosis and emancipatory catastrophism – by examining the articulation between transportation disasters and financial crises. The article explains why metamorphosis is an ongoing and open process that is unpredictable, unintentional, and inclusive. It also illustrates how dialogical communities of risk, as one of the possible emancipatory side effects of global risk, may weaken due to social organisms and inequality in risk definition.

Language: en