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

Anders Blok

doi:10.1177/0263276416669411

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

Anders Blok

Department of Sociology

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Theory, Culture & Society
Volume	33
Issue number	7-8
Pages (from-to)	271-279
ISSN	0263-2764
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276416669411
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2016

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