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This article explores the broad contexts and meanings of Ulrich Beck’s new concepts of emancipatory catastrophism and metamorphosis (Verwandlung) from an East Asian perspective. At the same time, it responds to the dialogue papers solicited from the participants of The Seoul Conference on 2014 - Climate Change and Risk Society: New Trends of Megacity Transformation. It serves as an introduction to a cosmopolitan dialogue with Beck in the age of global risk society, as well as an invitation to further forward-looking exploration and critical testing of these imaginative concepts.

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Cosmopolitan research dialogue East Asia Seoul

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(2010) Varieties of second modernity and the cosmopolitan vision. In: The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Sociological Society, Nagoya, Japan.

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(2015) Emancipatory catastrophism: What does it mean to climate change and risk society? Current Sociology 63(1): 75–88.

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(2015, forthcoming) Second-modern transformation in East Asia: An active dialogue with Ulrich Beck. Socio 5.

Emancipatory catastrophism from an East Asian perspective: Feedback from the dialogue organizer

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