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We began by considering the contributions that disaster research can make to sociology and social theory. Here we bring social theory to bear on disasters. Social theory has announced a series of ends: the end of the Enlightenment project, the end of history, the end of nature. Now we are faced with the biggest end of all: the end of everything, threatened as we are by civilizational collapse and mass species extinction. Thus undergirding all of the discussion of new risks and hazards is the profound shift in relations between the bio-sphere and human life.
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Matthewman, S. (2015). Riskworld? New Species of Trouble. In: Disasters, Risks and Revelation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137294265_5
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