Handbook on Risk and Inequality

Edited by Dean Curran, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada

• Contents:Preface xiii1 Introduction to the Handbook on Risk and Inequality 1Dean CurranPART I DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF RISK2 Finance, risk, and inequality 17Thibault Darcillon3 Dimensions of risk and environmental inequality 39David N. Pellow4 Risk and (welfare state) politics 53Philipp Rehm5 Changing risks, individualisation and inequality in a recast welfare state 70Klaus Rasborg6 Digital risk and inequality 88Elizabeth Cameron and Dean CurranPART II THEORIZING RISKS AND INEQUALITY7 Actor, structure and inequality: an intersectional perspective of risk 107Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson and Susanna Öhman8 Risk and new realities: social ontology, expertise and individualizationin the risk society 128Philip Walsh9 Corporations, class and the normalization of risk 143Laureen Snider and Steven Bittle10 Risk and trust: ethnomethodological orientations to risk theorizing 163Patrick G. WatsonPART III SPECIAL TOPICS AND NEW AREAS OF RESEARCH11 Inequality rising: the gendered impacts of precarious labor and financialization 179Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar and Aleena Shafique12 Beyond the spirit of the new urban crisis: risk-class and resonance 194David Tyfield13 Science, food, and risk: ecological disasters and social inequality underthe GMO regime 233Md Saidul Islam14 Risk society and epistemic inequality: rising voices from the ‘GlobalSouth’ in global governance 247Joy Y. Zhang15 The political economy of climate vulnerability: searching for commonground in a retrotopian world 261David ChampagneIndex

‘A timely examination of the intersection of risks and inequalities in our “world at risk”, this Handbook brings together innovative theoretical analysis and significant empirical insights. It wholly fulfils its promise to address a gap in the current debate and to delineate novel approaches for understanding the effects of man-made risks across groups, domains, and societies.’