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Global risks, mobilities and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of »reflexive« (Ulrich Beck), »multiple« (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), »entangled« (Shalini Randeria) and »global« (Arjun Appadurai) modernities simultaneously and immediately clash in social action: a process of cosmopolitanization in which »the global« is localized and »the local« is globalized in radical new ways. In this book, an international selection of prominent critical thinkers address this premise and provide their interpretations of imminent challenges, concomitant social dynamics and political implications. With contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, Edgar Grande, Maarten Hajer, Ronald Hitzler, Wolf Lepenies, Anna Tsing, Angela McRobbie, Bruno Latour, Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Natan Sznaider, Anja Weiß and Yunxiang Yan. Rezension Reviewed in: PERIPHERIE, 133/34 (2014), Reinhart Kößler. Cover Futures of Modernity -- Table of Content -- Futures of Modernity: An Introduction -- COSMOPOLITANIZING EUROPEAN MODERNITY -- Thinking beyond Trajectorism -- Cosmopolitan Hope. A Comment -- Ironic Politics - Politics of the Future? -- The Triple Challenge -- WORLD RISK SOCIETY - CLIMATE CHANGE IN A COSMOPOLITICAL VIEW -- Ordinary Catastrophe: Outsourcing Risk in Supply-Chain Capitalism -- Reflexive Modernity Brings us back to Earth. A Tribute to Ulrich Beck -- Living the Winter of Discontent: Reflections of a Deliberative Practitioner -- The Political Contradictions of Second Modernity -- INEQUALITY AND GOVERNANCE IN THE GLOBAL AGE -- Global Inequality and Human Rights: A Cosmopolitan Perspective -- The Politicization of Europe. A Cosmopolitan Project -- The Future of Global Inequality -- A Good Job Well Done: Richard Sennett and the Politics of Creative Labour -- INDIVIDUALIZATION COSMOPOLITANIZED -- Of the Individual and Individualization: The Striving Individual in China and the Theoretical Implications -- Individualisation, Migration and Gender Relations -- Inequality: From Natural »Facts« to Injustice - On the Political Sensibility of the Individualized Human -- Cosmopolitan Individualization. Twelve Theses on Ulrich Beck: A God of One's Own. Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence -- Notes on Editors and Contributors.
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