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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"risk society"”.
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What risks in whose risk society?
… the mediating role of socioeconomic factors in risk debates through an examination of the decontamination and demolition of Fulham Power Station in 1983-1984. The power station was built between the wars by and for the people of Fulham. Located on the Thames in the neighbourhood of Sands End, it …
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Understanding transitions through homelessness in a risk society
… of ‘edgework’ (experiences of traumatic risk situations, such as domestic violence; or of voluntary risk taking such as drug use; that encapsulate the need to negotiate risk on both emotional and physical levels). These factors may affect anyone’s lives, but only when their resources are …
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The Making Of New Farmers In Chinese Risk Society
… the making of new farmers in Chinese risk society. I argue that the socialist peasants are in the transformation into neoliberal new farmers. I define the "new farmers" as a dispositive agricultural population that embodies neoliberal ideologies and practices. The purpose of making the …
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RISK COMPLEX : preparing the body for new hardware
Today's citizen navigates a vast society engaged in the explicit of wealth and implicit creation of risks. Each transaction inhere es both wealth and risk within the system. In 1986 Utrich Beck explanation for this emerging post modern condition. His work, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, …
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Building resilience towards natural hazards: cross-‐scale knowledge and institutional linkages.
… of certainty or security that was fundamental to risk management in the past, collapses. In this context, the notion of ‘risk society’, introduced by Ulrich Beck in 1992, is considered as a shifting paradigm in world security, where our modern society becomes ever more interdependent and more …
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Risk and Socio-technical Systems: A study of the Taiwanese Campus Accident Reporting System
… is to examine the processes and problems of risk governance within the functioning of a socio-technical system in a hierarchical organization. I explore the actual problems of operators of the Campus Security Report System and the solutions they deploy as different groups of people. The …
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Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Hazards, Environmental and Health Risks as the Latent Products of Late Modernity
… telephone surveys, the objectives will be met. Risk society theory is used to explain the increase of diseases and environmental risks associated with CAFOs in late modernity. The results do not indicate that neighboring residents of CAFOs in Central Mississippi are more likely to have ill …
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Risk management unveiling and taming danger : exploratory search embedded in legitimating routines
… and legitimacy in the context of the "risk society." Interviews with executives in large organizations across a range of industries reveal that many risk managers echo this tension within their own work as they juxtapose two seemingly contradictory modes of search and action across five …
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Risk Perceptions of Climate Change in International Environmental Negotiations
Climate change poses an unprecedented risk to global human security and future generations. Yet actions to mitigate or adapt to the changing climate system vary greatly among countries and their constituencies. Despite mounting evidence detailing the economic, social, and ecological risks of …
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The Politics of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work
… technology (Felt, Wynne et al. 2007), industrial society’s logic of accumulation and market rationality, the primacy of contemporary instrumental and capitalist values, neoliberalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. With a view to addressing elementary questions regarding the future of cultural …
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Food scares and news media: a case study approach to science and risk in the news
… around the conjunction of science, health risks and the 'public sphere' role of the media. I have adopted a case study approach in which two specific instances of food scares are analysed from various perspectives, both quantitative and qualitative, and particularly with regard to Ulrich …
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The Turtle : an American school of architecture : a radical mediocracy
… optimism, party, political imagination as risk society, practice, propaganda, property, public programs, Goulthorpe's rabbit, relations, research, reticulation, rhinoceros, scale, simulation, spiritual, student tools, students as medium, teaching, technological, truth, turtle, variation.
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Governmentality: Welfare, Health and Higher Education as Sites of Agency, Resistance and Identity
… a particular era in history (characterised as 'risk society' or 'reflexive modernity'), dominated by a particular political ideology (characterised as 'neo-liberal'), and all examined aspects of public service delivery and use. Using Foucault's notion of governmentality, this body of research is …
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'Anything's risky': a theoretical examination of adolescent risk decisions
… thesis examines how young people define and use risk in their everyday lives. A constructivist methodology was adopted and eleven focus group discussions were conducted in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Focus groups were utilised to capture the 'group effect' and how it relates to the construction of …
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Sustainable development : the reflexive governance of risk
… frameworks. For Ulrich Beck, increased risk has created a World Risk Society which is defined by a state of 'reflexive' modernity (RM) where the central tenets of modernity are re-examined and current developmental patterns are drawn into question. In political and social discourse …
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‘The Paradox Of U.S. Security In The 1990s: Trans-Border Challenges From Mexico In The Context Of Nafta’
… the combination of the ‘Copenhagen School’ and Risk Society theory perspectives to explaining security issues.<br/>While drug trafficking from Mexico has been seen as detrimental to the social fabric of the United States because of its impact on the U.S. society, Mexican undocumented immigration …
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Insurance and the Anthropocene: like a frog in hot water
… (GEC) and what Beck (1992; 1999) termed the 'risk society'. In recent decades, there have been growing concerns that many of the risks impacting contemporary society have undergone fundamental changes. Many of these risks are increasingly being linked to the unintended consequences of …
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Plastic Oceans: A New Way in solving Our Plastic Pollution
… environment has become such a staple part of our society. The paper will also utilize Ulrich Beck’s “Risk Society” to explain why recycling programs were first seen as a solution to our plastic waste as well as to why we are returning back to the conversation of plastic pollution. Finally this …
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Meeting optimally the environmental challenge: A methodology for the lead industry
… practical means whereby the environmental `risks' may be identified, assessed and managed. They are philosophical, because they set out and identify the features of a new conceptual paradigm, whose basis is in the concept of the `risk society'. The paradigm is significantly more holistic, …
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The heterogeneous network of functional food technoscience, productive risk and impure nature
… analyzes increasing interests in health risks and natural foods since the late 1990s by investigating the emergence of the concepts of functional food and lifestyle-related disease. For this project, I conducted on-line multi-sited ethnographic study to examine and examined the …
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