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 Titolo: L'insicurezza sociale. Che significa essere protetti?
Autore: Castel Robert
Anno: 2004
Pagine: 100
Editore: Einaudi
Collana: Gli struzzi
Prezzo: 12,00 €
ISBN: 8806169157
ISBN-13: 9788806169152
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Pubblichiamo la recensione di Korstanje Maximiliano, della Palermo University (Argentina), desideroso di condividere con la Comunità di Anthropos alcune riflessioni su "L' insicurezza sociale. Che significa essere protetti?" di Robert Castel. Per semplicità, i dati del libro sono riferiti all'edizione italiana e non argentina.
The following short piece is aimed at discussing the outstanding book authored by Robert Castel entitled
Social Insecurity, what does it mean to be protected? [L'insicurezza sociale. Che significa essere protetti?, NdR]. This project (written originally in French) is important to note was never translated to English.
Thus, the present review will provide native English speakers a preliminary outlook regarding the social security in our times. An endeavor like this intends to bridge two schoolings which frequently are not in dialogue as French and American.
Initially, the French sociologist classifies the civil and social right according to the fundamental liberties and private property. The latter refers to ontological security criterion associated to illness, poverty, disasters and old aging. From his point of view, it seems to be paradoxical that industrialized societies, which are protected by a set of material devices, feel less security than other with a major lack of resources. These emerging fears go through every strata regardless social distinction or patrimony.
For that, Castel sets forward an interesting thesis: the feeling of insecurity would be no other thing than an obsession for protection linked to the quest of security in a globalised and interconnected world.
With this background in mind, not all real danger is correlated with a real danger but a disruption between the incommensurable ideals and effective means at their disposal to face the derived frustration. Starting from the premises that protection and threats are inevitably interrelated. In regards to this, the economy and politics converges in a theory which combines classical E. Durkheim´s approaches with the much more controversial contributions of P. Bourdieu and M. Foucault.
At the time, societies achieve their goals and sets other news creates news types of risk which were not expected in due course. As a result of this, an inflation of risk wreaks havoc in the social net declining the liaison and trust among citizens. This collective aversion corresponds with a lack of dependency among the different units that encompass the society.
After a detailed explanation about the preliminary implicitness of this issue, Castel argues that in Middle Age, the groups played a different role than now. In these times, security was circumscribed to a protection given by the proximity, oddly, among net-works associated with a high degree of cohesion related to lineage and heritage.
In order for preventing an external aggression, societies, located in Middle Age, considered the fear as an instrument for political indoctrination. Enrooted in the belief that the vulnerability of citizens offset to the protection of State, Castel realizes even though Middle age was a much more dangerous era in Europe, people felt safer than today. The point here seems to be that whereas the protection demands rise, the world starts to be potentially perceived as more hostile than other times. The question is: why?
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