Theoretical analysis uncovers asymmetrical exposure and protection mechanisms across postcolonial regions, highlighting the need for justice-oriented global risk frameworks.
Key Points
Critically reconstruct Beck’s risk society theory from the standpoint of the Global South to account for structurally unequal risk distribution and postcolonial power relations.
Conducted a conceptual and theoretical reconstruction of Ulrich Beck's risk society and reflexive modernization frameworks through a Global South perspective.
Showed that universalizing risk models fail to address how unequal capacities for buffering, protection, accountability, and repair systematically sustain asymmetrical global risk exposure.
Formulated the framework of 'unequal risk regimes' to explain how economic accumulation, spatial displacement, slow violence, and institutional mechanisms obscure and normalize disproportionate harm.