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UNINA9910462939903321 |
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Autore |
Lupton Deborah |
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Titolo |
Risk / / Deborah Lupton |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-203-07016-X |
1-135-09032-7 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (275 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Risk - Sociological aspects |
Risk perception - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; Changes in the meaning of risk; Contemporary concepts of risk; Risk anxieties and late modernity; The aim of this book; 2 Theorizing risk; The technico-scientific perspective; Cognitive psychology; Sociocultural perspectives; Social constructionist positions; Concluding comments; 3 Risk and culture; The importance of culture; Purity, danger and the body; Risk and blame; The grid-group model; Concluding comments; 4 Risk and reflexive modernization; Beck and the 'risk society'; Reflexive modernization; Individualization |
World risk society and cosmopolitanismGiddens' perspectives on risk; Risk and trust; Concluding comments; 5 Risk and governmentality; Governmentality; From dangerousness to risk; Contemporary risk strategies; Precautionary risk and the crisis of neo-liberalism; Concluding comments; 6 Risk and subjectivity; Risk knowledges and reflexivity; Social structures and power relations; Aesthetic, affective and habitual dimensions; Concluding comments; 7 Risk and Otherness; Conceptualizing Otherness; Embodiment and Otherness; Hybridity and liminality; The psychodynamics of Otherness |
Spatiality and OthernessConcluding comments; 8 Risk and pleasure; Escape attempts; Edgework; Risk-taking as gendered performances; Desire and transgression; Concluding comments; GLOSSARY; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Risk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the original edition and have since become widely used as a categorisation of risk perspectives.The first draws upon the work of Mary Douglas to articulate the 'cultural/symbolic' perspective on risk. The second approach is that of the 'risk society' perspective, based on the writings |
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