Risk Revisited

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

This book looks at the concept of risk from a cross-cultural perspective, the contributors challenge the Eurocentric frameworks within which notions of risk are more commonly considered. They argue that perceptions of danger, and sources of anxiety, are far more socially and culturally constructed - and far more contingent - than risk theorists generally admit. Topics covered include prostitutes in London; AIDS in Tanzania; the cease-fire in Northern Ireland; the volcanic eruptions in Montserrat; modernisation in Amazonia; and the BSE scare in Britain.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-02-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 16 mm
Vikt:409 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthropology, Culture and Society
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745314631

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Pat Caplan is one of the founders of the Anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, UoL and was formerly the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UoL. She is the author of Risk Revisited (Pluto Press, 2000) and The Ethics of Anthropology (Routledge, 2003).

Recensioner i media

'An authoritative and compelling text exploring risk from a variety of cultural perspectives, highly recommended reading to anyone studying social sciences'

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Risk Revisited by Pat Caplan2. The Politics of Risk among London Prostitutes by Sophie Day3. Risk and Trust: Unsafe Sex, Gender and AIDS in Tanzania by Janet Bujra4. Conflicting Models of Risk: Clinical Genetics and British Pakistanis by Alison Shaw5. Risk-talk: the Politics of Risk and its Representation by Penny Vera-Sanso6. A Risky Cease-fire: British Infantry Soldiers and Northern Ireland by Paul Killworth7. The Eruption of Chances Peak: Montserrat, and the Narrative Containment of Risk by Jonathan Skinner8. 'Eating British Beef with Confidence': A Consideration of Consumers' Responses to BSE in Britain by Pat Caplan9. Risk, ambiguity and the loss of control: how people with chronic illness experience complex biomedical causal models by Simon Cohn10. Good Risk, Bad risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia by Stephen NugentContributorsIndex