Tribute to Ulrich Beck (1944 - 2015) - Dissident Irish Republicanism
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BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Dissident Irish Republicanism - Laurie Taylor talks to John Morrison, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of East London, about his in depth study into the recent intensification of rogue paramilitary activity, Can the upsurge in dissident Republican violence be explained by the history of splits within the Movement? He charts the rise of groups including the Real IRA, Continuity IRA and the newly emerging 'New IRA.' He's joined by Henry Mcdonald, Belfast correspondent at the Observer newspaper.
Ulrich Beck - Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, gives a tribute to the eminent German sociologist who died earlier this month. What do his ideas about the 'risk society' tell us about current concerns relating to global terrorism?
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:44.0 | Hello. Where do you stand on Beck? |
| 0:47.0 | Barry asked me one day in the senior com room. |
| 0:49.0 | Beck, I said, desperately ransacking my sociological memory. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, what sort of aspect of Beck? |
| 0:56.0 | You know, said Barry charitably alleviating my plight, |
| 0:59.0 | his theory that globalization is now creating a risk society, a world in which nation states can |
| 1:05.1 | no longer control such matters as global warming and pollution. |
| 1:09.1 | I took a chance and shook my head disparagingly. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, nothing very new there, I said. Well, there's something |
| 1:15.6 | about big lies. They hang around. And as I learned more about the work of Ulrich Beck, the German sociologist |
| 1:21.9 | who died earlier this month, I only became increasingly |
| 1:24.5 | ashamed at that original duplicity. It was, after all, almost immediately after the publication |
| 1:30.7 | of Beck's first book, Risked society that the Chernobyl disaster provided a dramatic example of his prescience. |
| 1:36.9 | But in recent years it's terrorism which has even more powerfully confirmed his central argument that we're moving into a new world, a world not a contrary |
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