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Anthropology and Risk
About this book
Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in society are conditioned by knowledge claims and cultural assumptions and by the orientationof actors based on roles, norms, expectations, identities, trust and practical rationality within a lived social world. By focusing on agency, social complexity and the production and interpretation of meaning, the book offers a comprehensive and holistic theoretical perspective on risk, based on empirical case studies and ethnographic enquiry.
As a selection of Åsa Boholm's publications throughout her career, along with a newly written introduction overviewing the field, this book provides a unified perspective on risk as a construct shaped by social and cultural contexts.This collection should be of interest to students and scholars of risk communication, risk management, environmental planning, environmental management and environmental and applied anthropology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- EARTHSCAN RISK IN SOCIETY SERIES
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- This book is essential to anyone concerned
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Comparative studies of risk perception: lessons and challenges
- 3 Risk perception and social anthropology: the contribution from cultural theory
- 4 Situated risk: culture and the management of uncertainty
- 5 Risk as organisational practice: a case of railway planning
- 6 The public meeting as a theatre of dissent: risk and hazard in environmental decision making
- 7 Visual images and risk messages: commemorating Chernobyl
- 8 Communication on risk: relations, power and rationality
- Index