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Risk and Uncertainty in Maternity Care
Putting Risk in Its Place
Av Mandie Scamell, Kirstie Coxon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1553 kr
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This book examines the way risk is defined and employed in the delivery of maternity care across the world, inviting readers to reflect critically on how the management of risk shapes the organization and experience of maternity services. Drawing from investigations of the way risk operates in …
Researching Risk and Uncertainty
Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies
Av Anna Olofsson, Jens O. Zinn
Häftad, 2018
1420 kr
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Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change. This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations …
Framework of Intersectional Risk Theory in the Age of Ambivalence
Av Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
931 kr
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This book brings feminist theories and concepts to the sociology of risk in an attempt to carve out a framework for intersectional risk theories in times of ambivalence.The authors purport that risk is pervasive in the Global North, and is fast becoming a hegemonic governing principle. In order to …
UK ‘at Risk’
A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785–2009
Av Jens O. Zinn
Inbunden, 2019
822 kr
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This book presents a case study of the proliferation of at risk-language in The Times news coverage from 1785 to 2009, illuminating the changing social experience of risk.Zinn presents an historical examination of the forces which have shaped the language of risk over time, and considers how …
UK ‘at Risk’
A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785–2009
Av Jens O. Zinn
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This book presents a case study of the proliferation of at risk-language in The Times news coverage from 1785 to 2009, illuminating the changing social experience of risk.Zinn presents an historical examination of the forces which have shaped the language of risk over time, and considers how …
Understanding Risk-Taking
Av Jens O. Zinn
Inbunden, 2019
822 kr
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This book outlines and systematises findings from a growing body of research that examines the different rationales, dimensions and dynamics of risk-taking in current societies; providing insight into the different motivations and social roots of risk-taking to advance scholarly debates and improve …
Understanding Risk-Taking
Av Jens O. Zinn
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This book outlines and systematises findings from a growing body of research that examines the different rationales, dimensions and dynamics of risk-taking in current societies; providing insight into the different motivations and social roots of risk-taking to advance scholarly debates and improve …
Framework of Intersectional Risk Theory in the Age of Ambivalence
Av Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
931 kr
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This book brings feminist theories and concepts to the sociology of risk in an attempt to carve out a framework for intersectional risk theories in times of ambivalence.The authors purport that risk is pervasive in the Global North, and is fast becoming a hegemonic governing principle. In order to …
Chemical Youth
Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life
Av Anita Hardon
Inbunden, 2020
567 kr
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This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse …
Chemical Youth
Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life
Av Anita Hardon
Häftad, 2021
455 kr
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This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse …
Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives
Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts
Av Beata Świtek, Allen Abramson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1687 kr
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This book untangles the relationship between expert categorisations of risk and the on-the-ground experiences of untrained ‘ordinary’ people who may be routinely subjected to significant danger in a variety of extraordinary contexts. It considers political, ethical and moral dimensions of risk and …
Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives
Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts
Av Beata Świtek, Allen Abramson m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
1687 kr
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This book untangles the relationship between expert categorisations of risk and the on-the-ground experiences of untrained ‘ordinary’ people who may be routinely subjected to significant danger in a variety of extraordinary contexts. It considers political, ethical and moral dimensions of risk and …
Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty
Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents
Av Patrick R. Brown, Jens O. Zinn
Inbunden, 2022
1638 kr
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This book provides a global perspective on COVID-19, taking the heterogenous realities of the pandemic into account. Contributions are rooted in critical social science studies of risk and uncertainty and characterized by theoretical approaches such as cultural theory, risk society theory, …
Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty
Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents
Av Patrick R. Brown, Jens O. Zinn
Häftad, 2023
1638 kr
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This book provides a global perspective on COVID-19, taking the heterogenous realities of the pandemic into account. Contributions are rooted in critical social science studies of risk and uncertainty and characterized by theoretical approaches such as cultural theory, risk society theory, …
Experiences of Health Risks
Prevention, Power Dynamics and Inequalities
Inbunden, 2025
567 kr
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This book focuses on health risks, a domain in which risk expansion has been particularly prolific. As a result of massive gains in scientific knowledge, made possible by statistical developments, data accumulation and computerisation over the last decades, more and more attention has been geared …
Experiences of Health Risks
Prevention, Power Dynamics and Inequalities
Häftad, 2026
455 kr
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This book focuses on health risks, a domain in which risk expansion has been particularly prolific. As a result of massive gains in scientific knowledge, made possible by statistical developments, data accumulation and computerisation over the last decades, more and more attention has been geared …
Risk in The New York Times (1987–2014)
A corpus-based exploration of sociological theories
Av Jens O. Zinn, Daniel McDonald
Inbunden, 2017
623 kr
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This book investigates to what extent claims of common social science risk theories such as risk society, governmentality, risk and culture, risk colonisation and culture of fear are reflected in linguistic changes in print news media. The authors provide a corpus-based investigation of risk words …
Imagined Futures
Hope, Risk and Uncertainty
Av Julia Cook
Inbunden, 2017
588 kr
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This book presents the findings of a recent interview-based study of how 28 young adults living in Melbourne, Australia viewed and related to both the personal and societal future. In so doing it addresses issues such as how individuals imagine the future of their society, and whether this has any …
Risk in The New York Times (1987–2014)
A corpus-based exploration of sociological theories
Av Jens O. Zinn, Daniel McDonald
Häftad, 2018
605 kr
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This book investigates to what extent claims of common social science risk theories such as risk society, governmentality, risk and culture, risk colonisation and culture of fear are reflected in linguistic changes in print news media. The authors provide a corpus-based investigation of risk words …
Imagined Futures
Hope, Risk and Uncertainty
Av Julia Cook
Häftad, 2018
605 kr
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This book presents the findings of a recent interview-based study of how 28 young adults living in Melbourne, Australia viewed and related to both the personal and societal future. In so doing it addresses issues such as how individuals imagine the future of their society, and whether this has any …
Researching Risk and Uncertainty
Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies
Av Anna Olofsson, Jens O. Zinn
Inbunden, 2018
1420 kr
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Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change. This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations …
New Phenomenology of Risk and Uncertainty
Reflexive and Embodied Modes of Reasoning
Av Jens O. Zinn, Manuel Schulz
Inbunden, 2026
1420 kr
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This book develops a novel theoretical-interpretative framework for understanding how individuals and societies deal with risk and uncertainty, drawing on Hermann Schmitz’ New Phenomenology. In the context of contemporary challenges, such as pandemics, geopolitical conflicts, and climate-change …
