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Abstract The notion of ‘organized irresponsibility’, developed by Ulrich Beck in the eighties in relation to environmental risks, highlights the pervasiveness of decision-making processes in which it is no longer possible to identify an agent to whom cause and guilt can be attributed for the negative consequences of an action. This article claims that this concept remains analytically relevant for interpreting the transformations of responsibility in today’s process of oscillation between de-politicization and hyper-politicization. On one side, de-politicization represents decisions about the definition and management of global risks as technical, apolitical or even value-free, removing them – along with their corollary of responsibility – from the political arena. On the opposite side, the rhetoric and practices of hyper-politicization, based on the delegitimization of expert knowledge, reconfigure the decision-making space, revitalizing the role of the politician as a protagonist and opening the way to post-factual politics. The article argues, however, that coexistence of forms of post-factual politics and pressures towards the de-politicization of contentious issues produces what is only apparently a paradox.[...] Author Biography Maria Grazia Galantino, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Department of Social Sciences and Economics Downloads PDF Published 07.09.2022 How to Cite Galantino, M. G. (2022). Organised Irresponsibility in the Post-Truth Era: Beck’s Legacy in Today’s World at Risk. Italian Sociological Review, 12(8S), 971. https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v12i8S.598 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 12 No. 8S (2022) Section Articles License (APC) Article and submissions processing charges ISR does not ask for articles and submissions processing charges APC

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