Asa Boholm

Anthropology and Risk

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organization studies and philosophy, Åsa Boholm's writing addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. This book provides an account of how interpretations of risk in society are conditioned by knowledge claims and cultural assumptions, and by the orientation of actors based on roles, norms, expectations, identities, trust and practical rationality within a lived social world. By focusing on agency, social complexity and the production and interpretation of meaning the book offers a comprehensive and holistic perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780415745611
• ISBN-10: 0415745616
• Artikelnr.: 41847363

Autorenporträt

Åsa Boholm is Professor of Social Anthropology at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and has published on historical, cultural, organizational and institutional dimensions of risk for over twenty years.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Comparative Studies of Risk Perception 3. Cultural
Theory of Risk 4. The Cultural Nature of Risk 5. Speaking of Risk: Matters
of Context 6. The Public Meeting as a Theatre of Dissent: Risk and Hazard
in Land Use Planning 7. Visual Images and Risk Messages: Commemorating
Chernobyl 8. On the Organizational Practice of Expert-based Risk
Management: A Case of Railway Planning 9. Bibliography