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Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives. Bringing together original empirical research and sociocultural theory, the authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural dimensions of risk and risk-taking to understand how risk is experienced as part of everyday life and consider the influence that gender, social class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, occupation, geographical location and nationality have on our perceptions and experience of risk. Drawing on the work of key theorists - Ulrich Beck, Scott Lash, and Mary Douglas - the authors examine and critique theories of risk in the light of their own research and presents case studies which show how notions of risk interact with day-to-day concerns.
Risk and Border Crossings
Risk and Border Crossings
Beck's and others' focus on a broader range of risks – risks of intimate relationships, of work patterns, as well as the environmental risks so graphically displayed at Bhopal and Chernobyl – has potentially opened up attention to an analysis of risk as an aspect of mutable and multiple subjectivities. Yet we find a number of problems with current risk focus.
Most obviously, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, although the issues of genetic engineering, a continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic, public and media fears about GM food, carbon emissions and so on are major practical and ethical agendas for the new century, the criminal risks to human life that have occurred in India, Afghanistan, Palestine, Rwanda, Kosovo and East ...
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