Anthropology and risk

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boholm, Asa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , c2015
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Comparative studies of risk perception: lessons and challenges
  • 3. Risk perception and social anthropology: the contribution from cultural theory
  • 4. Situated risk: culture and the management of uncertainty
  • 5. Risk as organisational practice: a case of railway planning
  • 6. The public meeting as a theatre of dissent: risk and hazard in environmental decision making
  • 7. Visual images and risk massages: commemorating chernobyl
  • 8. Communication on risk: relations, power and rationality