Risk Second Edition

Name: Risk Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780415622547

ISBN-10: 0415622549

ISBN-13: 9780415622547

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Deborah Lupton

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We are now living in a 'risk' society: risk analysis, risk assessment and risk management are ever-expanding industries. In this fully revised and expanded update of her highly cited, influential and well-known book, Deborah Lupton provides a comprehensive review of the major sociocultural theoretical perspectives and empirical research on risk.

Book details

List price: $34.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Deborah Lupton is an independent sociologist. She was formerly Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia.




Introduction


Changes in the meaning of risk


Contemporary concepts of risk


Risk anxieties and late modernity


The aim of this book



Theorizing risk


The technico-scientific perspective


Cognitive psychology


Sociocultural perspectives


Social constructionist 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


World risk society and cosmopolitanism


Giddens' perspectives on risk


Risk and trust


Concluding comments



Risk and governmentality


Governmentality


From dangerousness to risk


Contemporary risk strategies


Precautionary risk and the crisis of neo-liberalism


Concluding comments



Risk and subjectivity


Risk knowledges and reflexivity


Social structures and power relations


Aesthetic, affective and habitual dimensions


Concluding comments



Risk and Otherness


Conceptualizing Otherness


Embodiment and Otherness


Hybridity and liminality


The psychodynamics of Otherness


Spatiality and Otherness


Concluding comments



Risk and pleasure


Escape attempts


Edgework


Risk-taking as gendered performances


Desire and transgression


Concluding comments


Glossary


References


Index