[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's ….

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk..

The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors..

To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the dom….

A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - ….

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events..

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'.

The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged c….

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it..

Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of….

High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regul….

In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind o….

Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising t….

The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of il….

To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially….

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings..

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes..

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks..

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering othe….

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence..

Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see….