Risk

by Lupton; Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780415183338
• ISBN10: 0415183332
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

With risk analysis, risk assessment and risk management as ever-expanding industries, we are now living in a "risk" society. In this book, Deborah Lupton examines why risk has come to such prominence at this particular point in history. She traces how risk has been constructed over time from pre-modernity to the later modern era and provides an introduction to the main theories surrounding the subject. Riskcovers a wide range of issues, including: risk and culture; sociocultural and scientific perspectives; blame, danger and trust; and risk and pleasure. Including examples of the ways in which risk is experienced in everyday life, this book provides a lively and engaging introduction to one of today's major sociocultural concepts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Changes in the meaning of risk This book

Theorizing Risk: The cognitive science perspective Sociocultural perspectives Social construcitonist positions Concluding comments

Risk and culture: The importance of culture Purity, danger and the body Risk and blame The grid-group model Concluding comments

Risk and reflexive modernization: Beck and the 'risk society' Reflexive modernization Individualization Giddens' perspectives on risk Trust Concluding comments

Risk and governmentality: Governmentality From dangerousness to risk Contemporary risk strategies Concluding comments

Risk and subjectivity: Risk knowledges and relexivity Social structures and power relations Aesthetic and habitual dimensions Concluding comments

Risk and Otherness: Embodiment Hybridity and liminality The psychodynamics of Otherness Spatiality and Otherness Concluding comments

Risk and pleasure: Escape attempts and edgework Risk-taking as gendered performances Desire and transgression Concluding comments

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Index

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