Risk Society: A Pandemic Face of the Modern World Emily John Mandel’s Station Eleven and COVID-19 in relation to Ulrich Beck’s

Authors

  • Farooq University of Haripur, Haripur Kp Pakistan 
  • Gahni Hazara University Mansehra Pakistan
  • Sohaib University of Haripur Kp Pakistan
  • Iqra University of Science and Technology Havelian 

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v3i4.141

Abstract

Abstract

Ulrich Beck’s notion of ‘risk society’ reveals the ugly aspects of modernity in today’s modern world. It demonstrates bio-ecological and technological terrors in the modern era. The present research paper discusses Emily John Mandel’s Station Eleven, a post- apocalyptic science fiction, and the current outbreak of pandemic of Covid-19 in relation to Beck’s ‘risk society’. Mandel’s Station Eleven, like Covid-19, deals with the pandemic of ‘Georgia flu’ which killed millions of people. The paper aims at exploring the risk features of modern world. It exhibits that today’s globalized world has started manifesting the ugly faces of modernity in the form of terrible biological war which is either a deliberately manufactured one or the outcome of human collective negligent actions resulted in an unwanted catastrophe. The study terms the pandemics as shared fear and the induced outcome of shared actions across the world.

Keywords: risk society, apocalyptic literature, modernity, Covid-19, pandemic

Author Biographies

  • Farooq, University of Haripur, Haripur Kp Pakistan 

    Lecturer

  • Gahni, Hazara University Mansehra Pakistan

    Assistant professor

  • Sohaib, University of Haripur Kp Pakistan

    Lecturer

  • Iqra, University of Science and Technology Havelian 

    lecturer

Additional Files

Published

2021-12-31

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 4 (2021): Pakistan Journal of Social Research (PJSR)

Section

Research Article

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How to Cite

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“Risk Society: A Pandemic Face of the Modern World Emily John Mandel’s Station Eleven and COVID-19 in relation to Ulrich Beck’s”, Pak. J, Soc. Sci., vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 113–119, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.52567/pjsr.v3i4.141.