COVID-19 as a Global Risk: Confronting the Ambivalences of a Socionatural Threat
On the face of it, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to fit into the risk society framework as a danger that is produced by the modernization process in its global stage. However, coronaviruses are a very particular kind of risk which risk theory does not properly explain. In fact, there is no single pers...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-11-01
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Series: | Societies |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/10/4/92 |