Thinking beyond Trajectorism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Content 5
3. Futures of Modernity: An Introduction 7
4. Cosmopolitanizing European Modernity
5. Thinking beyond Trajectorism 25
6. Cosmopolitan Hope 33
7. Ironic Politics – Politics of the Future? 37
8. The Triple Challenge 43
9. World Risk Society – Climate Change in a Cosmopolitical View
10. Ordinary Catastrophe: Outsourcing Risk in Supply-Chain Capitalism 51
11. Reflexive Modernity Brings us back to Earth 65
12. Living the Winter of Discontent: Reflections of a Deliberative Practitioner 77
13. The Political Contradictions of Second Modernity 95
14. Inequality and Governance in the Global Age
15. Global Inequality and Human Rights: A Cosmopolitan Perspective 109
16. The Politicization of Europe 129
17. The Future of Global Inequality 141
18. A Good Job Well Done: Richard Sennett and the Politics of Creative Labour 155
19. Individualization Cosmopolitanized
20. Of the Individual and Individualization: The Striving Individual in China and the Theoretical Implications 177
21. Individualisation, Migration and Gender Relations 195
22. Inequality: From Natural »Facts« to Injustice 201
23. Cosmopolitan Individualization. Twelve Theses on Ulrich Beck 215
24. Notes on Editors and Contributors 231