'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices..

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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