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Refuse and the “Risk Society”: The Political Ecology of Risk in Inter-War Britain (2013)

Cooper, Timothy (Author)
Bulmer, Sarah (Author)

Social History of Medicine
Volume: 26, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 246-266

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Risk Historiography Environmental health; environmental medicine Medicine and politics 20th century, early Great Britain

This article responds to current critiques of Ulrich Beck's `risk society' thesis by historians of science and medicine. Those who have engaged with the concept of risk society have been content to accept the fundamental categories of Beck's analysis. In contrast, we argue that Beck's risk society thesis underplays two key themes. First, the role of capitalist social relations as the driver of technological change and the transformation of everyday life; and second, the ways in which hegemonic discourses of risk can be appropriated and transformed by counter-hegemonic forces. In place of `risk society', we propose an approach based upon a `political ecology of risk', which emphasises the social relations that are fundamental to the everyday politics of environmental health.

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