ABSTRACT
In Chapter 4, the views on risk as a product of late modernity put forward by Beck and Giddens were discussed. Those who have taken up a perspective on risk drawing on the writings of Michel Foucault are also interested in the ways in which risk operates in late modernity, particularly in relation to the political ethos of neo-liberalism, which currently dominates in Anglophone countries. They similarly see the intensification of discussions of risk and risk practices as an outcome of the social changes occurring in the wake of modernization.
