Risk Power and Inequality in the 21st Century provides a groundbreaking new analysis of the
increasingly important relationship between risk and widening inequalities. The massive and
often unequal impacts of contemporary risks are recognized widely in popular discussions - be
it the fall-out from the 2008 financial crisis or Hurricane Katrina - yet there is a distinct
neglect in social science of the overall systemic impacts of these risks for increasing
inequalities. This book moves beyond this lacuna to identify novel intersections of risk and
inequalities. It shows how key processes associated with risk society - the social production
and distribution of risks as side-effects - are intensifying inequalities in fundamental ways.
In articulating how risk is intensifying both the social sources of suffering of the least
advantaged and the power of the most advantaged this book realizes a significant rethinking of
risk power and inequalities in contemporary society.
