Critical Risk Research

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Beschreibung

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.

Autorentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

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