Theories of Uncertainty and Risk across Different Modernities (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Brown, Patrick

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection discusses common ways of thinking about risk and uncertainty through examining how uncertainty is handled in different settings around the world. The book challenges assumptions which associate risk with post-traditional, secular and liberal characteristics. It was originally published as a special issue of Health, Risk & Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351624787
• Artikelnr.: 57413733

Autorenporträt

Patrick Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is Deputy Editor of Health, Risk & Society and has published widely on topics of trust, hope, risk and related ways in which organisations, groups and individuals handle uncertainty.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Theorising uncertainty and risk across different modernities:
considering insights from 'non-North-Western' studies 2. Engaging with risk
in non-Western settings: an editorial 3. Anthropology and risk: insights
into uncertainty, danger and blame from other cultures - A review essay 4.
Faith and uncertainty: migrants' journeys between Indonesia, Malaysia and
Singapore 5. Applying the risk society thesis within the context of flood
risk and poverty in Jakarta, Indonesia 6. Coping with health-related
uncertainties and risks in Rakhine (Myanmar) 7. Performing prevention:
risk, responsibility, and reorganising the future in Japan during the H1N1
pandemic 8. Purity and danger: shamans, diviners and the control of danger
in premodern Japan as evidenced by the healing rites of the Aogashima
islanders