Critical Risk Research

Practices, Politics and Ethics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics offers a collection of essays, written by a wide variety of international researchers in risk research, about what it means to do risk research, and about how – and with what effects – risk research is practiced, articulated and exploited. This approach is based upon the core assumption that: to make a difference in the study of risk, we must move beyond what we usually do, challenging the core assumptions, scientific, economic and social, about how we study, frame, exploit and govern risk. Hence, through a series of essays, the book aims to challenge the current ways in which risk-problems are approached and presented, both conceptually by academics and through the framings that are encoded in the technologies and socio-political and institutional practices used to manage risk.In addressing these questions, the book does not attempt to offer a model of how risk research 'should' be done. Rather, the book provides, through illustration, a challenge to the ways in which risk research is framed as 'problem-solving.' The book's ultimate objective aims to increase critical debate between different disciplines, approaches, concepts and problems.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-04-10
Mått:175 x 252 x 18 mm
Vikt:531 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780470974872

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Geovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Dr Matthew B Kearnes, Institute of Hazard and Risk Research, Durham University, Department of Geography, Durham, UK.Dr. Francisco R. Klauser, Assistant Professor, Institute of Geography, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.Professor Stuart Lane, Faculte des geosciences et l'environmnent, Institut de Geographie, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

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“I highly recommend the essential reference book http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470974877.html"Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics edited by Matthew B. Kearnes, Francisco R. Klauser, and Stuart N. Lane, to any academic researchers, students, business leaders, non-profit organizations, policy makers and analysts, and elected officials at all levels of government, who are seeking a useful overview of the crucial elements of contemporary risk research. This book is an excellent reference for any discussion and debate for finding a new direction for meeting the challenges facing modern risk research.” (Blog Business World, 4 August 2012)

Innehållsförteckning

Contributors, vii Preface, xi1 Introduction: Risk Research after Fukushima, 1Matthew B. Kearnes, Francisco R. Klauser & Stuart N. LanePart 1 Practices in Risk Research, 212 Practices of Doing Interdisciplinary Risk-Research: Communication, Framing and Reframing, 23Louise J. Bracken3 Religion and Disaster in Anthropological Research, 43Claudia Merli4 'Risk' in Field Research, 59Sarah R. Davies, Brian R. Cook & Katie J. OvenPart 2 Politics in Risk Research, 775 Finding the Right Balance: Interacting Security and Business Concerns at Geneva International Airport, 79Francisco R. Klauser & Jean Ruegg6 Governing Risky Technologies, 99Phil Macnaghten & Jason Chilvers7 Technologies of Risk and Responsibility: Attesting to the Truth of Novel Things, 125Matthew B. KearnesPart 3 Ethics in Risk Research, 1498 Ethical Risk Management, but Without Risk Communication?, 151Stuart N. Lane9 In the Wake of the Tsunami: Researching Across Disciplines and Developmental Spaces in Southern Thailand, 173Jonathan Rigg, Lisa Law, May Tan-Mullins, Carl Grundy-Warr & Benjamin Horton10 Social Work in Times of Disaster: Practising Across Borders, 197Lena Dominelli11 Conclusion: Reflections on 'Critical' Risk Research, 219Stuart N. Lane, Francisco R. Klauser & Matthew B. KearnesIndex, 237