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Apocalyptic Visions and Ecofeminist Narratives in Three Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Apocalypse that describes ‘end‐of‐world’ scenarios have been especially prolific in the past few decades since the climate crisis has prophesied the imminent destruction of natural and human habitats. Apocalyptic literatures present insights into the various problems that beset humanity currently and extrapolate the inevitable consequences ...
Chitra Sankaran
wiley   +1 more source

Interview med Ulrich Beck [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Som opsamling på det foregående og som en præsentation af det, Beck helt aktuelt arbejder med, bringes et længere interview med Ulrich Beck af Mads P ...
Sørensen, Mads P.
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Pensar globalmente y actuar localmente: El estado transnacional ambiental en Ulrich Beck

open access: yesJurídicas, 2008
El título “Pensar Globalmente y Actuar Localmente: El Estado Transnacional Ambiental en Ulrich Beck”, indica objetivos enfocados en la búsqueda por aproximación, entre colaboración, Solidaridad y participación, superpuestas en la cuestión ambiental ...
Paulo Márcio Cruz, Zenildo Bodnar
doaj  

The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 730-743, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
wiley   +1 more source

A individualização em Ulrich Beck: análise da sociedade contemporânea (Individualization in Ulrich Beck: an analysis of contemporary society)

open access: yesEmancipação, 2010
Resumo: A individualização é tema da análise sociológica contemporânea e Ulrich Beck analisa esse processo no contexto de mudanças da primeira para a segunda modernidade.
Vera Herweg Westphal
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A sociedade de risco e a noção de cidadania: desafios para a educação científica e tecnológica

open access: yesLinhas Críticas, 2019
Ulrich Beck, em uma obra de 1986 intitulada "sociedade de risco", afirma que a vida social moderna se defronta com novas formas de perigo produzidas por ela mesma e que desafiam a humanidade.
Maurício Pietrocola   +1 more
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Coverage‐based rarefaction fails to quantify relative species richness

open access: yesOikos, Volume 2026, Issue 11, November 2026.
Coverage‐based rarefaction (CBR) is a high‐profile tool for assessing biodiversity that provides relative species richness estimates by leveraging the Good‐Turing index u to interpolate. In contrast to alternatives such as the Shannon and Simpson indices, CBR's main appeal is providing values in units of species. CBR is tested against a series of other
John Alroy
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOPOLITANISM IN THE FACE OF POPULISM – CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES ON THE PATH OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY FORMATION

open access: yesSociety Register, 2017
The paper examines the continuing viability of the critique of methodological nationalism in the context of recent resurgence of nationalist sentiments across western liberal democracies. Using the distinction between first and second modernity, it shows
Piotr Cichocki
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting AI Readiness Through Digital Workflows in Materials Science

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, Volume 28, Issue 20, 21 October 2026.
Digitalization drives innovation in materials science by connecting data silos and turning heterogeneous processes into reusable research pipelines. Across 13 MaterialDigital projects, digital workflows reveal complementary pathways toward AI‐ready materials research, founded on structured data, persistent artifacts, executable orchestration, and ...
Marian Bruns   +67 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bleibt alles anders: Ulrich Beck deutet die Metamorphose der Welt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Ulrich Beck: Die Metamorphose der Welt. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2016. 978-3-518-42563-
Knöbl, Wolfgang
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