The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Conc 9780745690216, 9780745690223, 0745690211

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change i

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9780745690216, 9780745690223, 0745690211

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Table of contents :
* Foreword * Preface * Introduction, Evidence, Theory * Chapter I Why metamorphosis of the world, why not transformation? * Chapter II Being God * Chapter III How climate change might save the world * Chapter IV Theorising metamorphosis * Themes * Chapter V From class to risk-class: Inequality in times of metamorphosis * Chapter VI Where does the power go? Politics of invisibility * Chapter VII Emancipatory catastrophism: Common goods as side effects of bads * Chapter VIII Public bads: Politics of visibility * Chapter IX Digital risk: Failing of functioning institutions * Chapter X Meta-power game of politics: Metamorphosis of the nation and international relations * Chapter XI Cosmopolitan communities of risk: From United Nations to United Cities * Outlook * Chapter XII Global Risk Generations: United in decline * Bibliography

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