Ulrich Beck: E-Special Introduction

Mythen, Gabe

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“…Children and youth at the forefront of the risk society are developing in a world that is preoccupied with risk. This has impacted their identity and social ties (Mythen, 2004). New technologies (e.g.…”

Section: The Children Of Today: Childhoods Lived In the Risk Societiesmentioning

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Adultization and blurring the boundaries of childhood in the late modern era

Orman

2019

Global Studies of Childhood

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Although the modern Western concept of childhood is rapidly disappearing in the age of late modernity, this study asserts that childhood (as it is lived) has not disappeared but has been transformed. An integrated approach to childhood is employed in order to go beyond binary oppositions such as the Global North versus the Global South and/or childhood versus childhoods. It is argued that children while constructing their childhoods are confronted with processes of individualisation and globalisation through which new forms of adultization have emerged as concepts of ‘child consumerism’ and ‘child citizenship’. Beyond the opposing views involving the disappearance of childhood or its liberation, this study concludes that the concept of adultization can be used to problematise and analyse childhood in its current state.

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Section: The Children Of Today: Childhoods Lived In the Risk Societiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adultization and blurring the boundaries of childhood in the late modern era

Orman

2019

Global Studies of Childhood

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“…As a response to this, a ‘client-first’ approach is suggested as an adaptable model that allows for victims to ‘opt in and out of services and resources as they need during times of vulnerability, while allowing them to build resilience skills during times of security and self-sufficiency’ (Schwarz and Britton, 2015: 64). This framework not only attempts to serve as a predictor of ‘future victimisation’ (Mythen, 2007: 474) but is also powered by neo-liberal, financial imperatives (Mythen, 2004).…”

Section: Lgbt Victims Of Trafficking: Harm and Religion–sexuality Tenmentioning

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Deconstructing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender victim of sex trafficking: Harm, exceptionality and religion–sexuality tensions

Boukli

Renz

2018

International Review of Victimology

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Contrary to widespread belief, sex trafficking also targets LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) communities. Contemporary social and political constructions of victimhood lie at the heart of regulatory policies on sex trafficking. Led by the US Department of State, knowledge on LGBT victims of trafficking constitutes the newest frontier in the expansion of criminalization measures. These measures represent a crucial shift. From a burgeoning range of pre-emptive measures enacted to protect an amorphous class of 'all potential victims', now policies are heavily premised on the risk posed by traffickers to 'victims of special interest'. These constructed identities, however, are at odds with established structures. Drawing on a range of literatures, the core task of this article is to confront some of the complexities and tensions surrounding constructions of LGBT trafficking victims. Specifically, the article argues that discourses of 'exceptional vulnerability' and the polarized notions of 'innocence' and 'guilt' inform hierarchies of victimhood. Based on these insights, the article argues for the need to move beyond monolithic understandings of victims, by reframing the politics of harm accordingly.

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“…However, Beck’s and Giddens’ risk society thesis and reflexive modernity have been widely criticised for being a ‘totalising assumption’ (Dean, 1999: 184), or for falling into a ‘universalism’ trap (Mythen, 2004: 8), by neglecting to provide a detailed historical analysis of risk in everyday life. According to Lash, Beck and Giddens have placed too much emphasis on expert systems and institutions to the detriment of laypeople’s knowledge (Lash, 1994a).…”

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Risk Epistemologies and Aesthetic Reflexivity of a Disaster-Affected Community: Findings from Vietnam

Nguyen‐Trung

2022

Sociological Research Online

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Scholars and policymakers often use their expert knowledge to define the risk that laypeople face. Nonetheless, they have frequently overlooked how laypeople describe and explain the risks they face on a daily basis. Moreover, an emphasis on individualisation and reflexivity in Western societies has led to little understanding of how a non-Western community constructs its shared risk culture and how this culture associates aesthetic reflexivity and risk epistemologies. The purpose of this research is to fill these gaps by exploring how Vietnamese farmers reflexively define risk in their everyday lives, which in turn informs their risk-taking attitude and action. Drawing on a case study of disaster-prone farmers in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, this research reveals a distinct set of farmers’ risk epistemologies through a process of hermeneutic reflexivity situated in their risk culture and a shared identity. They do not view risk as wholly negative but rather as an opportunity to attain the aim of surviving and profiting. They see cultivating a risky crop as a collective action of risking their lives, sharing with their community both the challenges and the opportunities that risk might offer. My article makes a case for sociological research into non-Western civilizations, where late modernity and reflexivity might not be accompanied by individualisation but rather with collectivism and tradition.

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Ulrich Beck: E-Special Introduction

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Adultization and blurring the boundaries of childhood in the late modern era

Adultization and blurring the boundaries of childhood in the late modern era

Deconstructing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender victim of sex trafficking: Harm, exceptionality and religion–sexuality tensions

Risk Epistemologies and Aesthetic Reflexivity of a Disaster-Affected Community: Findings from Vietnam

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