Urban Climate Risk Communities: East Asian World Cities as Cosmopolitan Spaces of Collective Action?

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Abstract

Ulrich Beck’s cosmopolitan sociology affords a much-needed rethinking of the transnational politics of climate change, not least in pointing to an emerging inter-urban geography of world cities as a potential new source of community, change and solidarity. This short essay, written in honour of Beck’s forward-looking agenda for a post-Euro-centric social science, outlines the contours of such an urban-cosmopolitan ‘realpolitik’ of climate risks, as this is presently unfolding across East Asian world cities. Much more than a theory-building endeavour, the essay suggests, Beck’s sociology provides a standing invitation for further transnational dialogue and collaborative empirical work, in East Asia and beyond, on what are, arguably, the defining challenges for the 21st century world of global risks.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftTheory, Culture & Society
Vol/bind33
Udgave nummer7-8
Sider (fra-til)271-279
ISSN0263-2764
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2016

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