Critical Risk Research (eBook)

Practices, Politics and Ethics

Stuart Lane, Francisco Klauser, Matthew B. Kearnes (Herausgeber)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
256 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781119962731 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Contributors, vii

Preface, xi

1 Introduction: Risk Research after Fukushima, 1

Matthew B. Kearnes, Francisco R. Klauser & Stuart N.
Lane

Part 1 Practices in Risk Research, 21

2 Practices of Doing Interdisciplinary Risk-Research:
Communication, Framing and Reframing, 23

Louise J. Bracken

3 Religion and Disaster in Anthropological Research, 43

Claudia Merli

4 'Risk' in Field Research, 59

Sarah R. Davies, Brian R. Cook & Katie J. Oven

Part 2 Politics in Risk Research, 77

5 Finding the Right Balance: Interacting Security and Business
Concerns at Geneva International Airport, 79

Francisco R. Klauser & Jean Ruegg

6 Governing Risky Technologies, 99

Phil Macnaghten & Jason Chilvers

7 Technologies of Risk and Responsibility: Attesting to the
Truth of Novel Things, 125

Matthew B. Kearnes

Part 3 Ethics in Risk Research, 149

8 Ethical Risk Management, but Without Risk Communication?,
151

Stuart N. Lane

9 In the Wake of the Tsunami: Researching Across Disciplines and
Developmental Spaces in Southern Thailand, 173

Jonathan Rigg, Lisa Law, May Tan-Mullins, Carl Grundy-Warr &
Benjamin Horton

10 Social Work in Times of Disaster: Practising Across Borders,
197

Lena Dominelli

11 Conclusion: Reflections on 'Critical' Risk Research,
219

Stuart N. Lane, Francisco R. Klauser & Matthew B.
Kearnes

Index, 237

Rezensionen

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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)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: earth sciences • Environmental change • Environmental Geoscience • Environmental Studies • Geowissenschaften • Umweltforschung • Umweltgeowissenschaften • Umweltveränderungen • Umweltveränderungen
• ISBN-13: 9781119962731 / 9781119962731