Critical Risk Research
Practices, Politics and Ethics
Published on 28. February 2012
248 pages
978-1-119-94525-3 (ISBN)
Description
Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics offers acollection of essays, written by a wide variety of internationalresearchers in risk research, about what it means to do riskresearch, and about how - and with what effects - riskresearch is practiced, articulated and exploited.
This approach is based upon the core assumption that: to make adifference in the study of risk, we must move beyond what weusually do, challenging the core assumptions, scientific, economicand social, about how we study, frame, exploit and govern risk.Hence, through a series of essays, the book aims to challenge thecurrent ways in which risk-problems are approached and presented,both conceptually by academics and through the framings that areencoded in the technologies and socio-political and institutionalpractices used to manage risk.
In addressing these questions, the book does not attempt tooffer a model of how risk research 'should' be done. Rather, thebook provides, through illustration, a challenge to the ways inwhich risk research is framed as 'problem-solving.' The book'sultimate objective aims to increase critical debate betweendifferent disciplines, approaches, concepts and problems.
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"I highly recommend the essential reference book CriticalRisk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics edited byMatthew B. Kearnes, Francisco R. Klauser, and Stuart N. Lane, toany academic researchers, students, business leaders, non-profitorganizations, policy makers and analysts, and elected officials atall levels of government, who are seeking a useful overview of thecrucial elements of contemporary risk research. This book is anexcellent reference for any discussion and debate for finding a newdirection for meeting the challenges facing modern riskresearch." (Blog Business World, 4 August2012)More details
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Persons
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.
Content
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
Part 2 Politics in Risk Research, 77
5 Finding the Right Balance: Interacting Security and BusinessConcerns at Geneva International Airport, 79
Francisco R. Klauser & Jean Ruegg
6 Governing Risky Technologies, 99
Phil Macnaghten & Jason Chilvers
7 Technologies of Risk and Responsibility: Attesting to theTruth of Novel Things, 125
Matthew B. Kearnes
Part 3 Ethics in Risk Research, 149
8 Ethical Risk Management, but Without Risk Communication?,151
Stuart N. Lane
9 In the Wake of the Tsunami: Researching Across Disciplines andDevelopmental Spaces in Southern Thailand, 173
Jonathan Rigg, Lisa Law, May Tan-Mullins, Carl Grundy-Warr &Benjamin Horton
10 Social Work in Times of Disaster: Practising Across Borders,197
Lena Dominelli
11 Conclusion: Reflections on 'Critical' Risk Research,219
Stuart N. Lane, Francisco R. Klauser & Matthew B.Kearnes
Index, 237
