3-6 September 2007
ESA conference Glasgow
RN 22: Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty
Session-streams with papers:
Session-streams
with abstracts
Governing
the Risk Society
Franz Seifert: National
recalcitrance and scientific risk-assessment. The case of Austria's
GMO-policy.
J.D. Wulfhorst:Fighting Risk, Breeding
Uncertainty: The Future of Nuclear Power in Europe vs. the United States
Nina Baur: Risk Production on Food Markets. The Case of the German
Yoghurt Market
Jean-Noël Jouzel: Can Occupational Risk Enter the Risk Society?
The Case of the Glycol Ethers Controversy in France
Marian Burchardt: Managing Uncertainty
through Solidarity? HIV/AIDS and the Organization of Support in South
Africa
Mathilde Gralepois: Local risk management in town intercommunity
council: Structuring intersector public policies in France
Jyri Liukko: Life insurance and solidarity.
Sharing of risk and responsibility in the promotion of life insurance
in Finland 1945 - 1990
José Manuel Mendes: Risk, Citizenship, and the Role of
the State in a Globalised World
Peter Taylor-Gooby: Welfare State Reforms
and the Governance of Social Risks
Sytze F. Kingma: The paradox of control in high-risk gambling
organizations
Henry Rothstein & Michael Huber: The Institutional
Origins of Risk
Wendy Mitchell & Caroline Glendinning: Risk, risk
management and adult social care: new policies, new risks and identifying
gaps in the evidence base and the potential of recent Government guidance
Christian Bröer: Policy Annoyance, How
policy discourses shape the perception of aircraft noise
Clementina Marques Cardoso: Citizenship formation, public management
of risks and the welfare system: the outbreak of bird flu, government
responses and Portuguese citizens working in the UK
Risk
Perception
Jiri Burianek: Fear
of Crime As a "Normalisation" of Risks: A Czech Experience
Aiste Balzekiene: Lay - expert nuclear risk perceptions: the
case of Lithuania
Frederic Vandermoere: Determinants of hazard perception, risk
perception and risk tolerance by residents 'exposed to' soil pollution.
The role of sustainability and the limits of expert-knowledge.
Risk
Discourses and the Media
Sergi Fábregues Feijóo, Anna Garcia Hom &
Rachel Palmén: Risk Discourses and The Media: Framing
Risk in the Case of Mobile Phone Infrastructure in Spain
Anika Oettler: Print Media and the Construction of Violent Realities
in Central America
Daniel Lord: A "Risky" Diagnosis: Unmasking the Rhetoric
of the "Peak Oil" Thesis
Risk,
Uncertainty and Social Inequalities
Aaron Doyle: Four Ironies of Insurance and Social Inequality
Susanna Öhman: Risk Perception and Risk Behaviour: The Impact
of Gender and Sexual Orientation and the Mediating Role of Values and
Experiences of Vulnerability
Jörgen Sparf: Personal immobility in crises - the effect
of social resources
Heikki Huilaja: Education as a risk management tool for individuals
in the transitional labour markets
Voluntary
Risk Taking
Susan Batchelor: 'Daein it fer the buzz'? The multiple motives
and meanings of young women's risk taking
Lara Killick: "What choice do I have, sport is physical,
injuries are going to happen": Exploring young people's experience
of sports-related risk, pain and injury at secondary school.
Aaron Doyle & Kevin Walby: 'Battling the Body': Risk,
Edgework, Masculinities and Tree-Planting in Canada
Andrea Carocci: Risk and reflexivity. From
denial to the perception of a cultural problem
Atte Oksanen: Atrocity Exhibition: Industrial Music and Politics
of Shock and Risk
Ellie Reynolds: Beyond the limits: transcending the social construction
of risk
Tim Harries: "Flooding? Cool! What fun!" - Voluntary
risk-taking and natural hazard mitigation
Allen Abramson: Rock, Risk and Epic: Climbing
and the Production of Serious Being
Health,
Risk and European Societies
Lai Fong Chiu: The
understanding of risk representation, and the perceptions of professionals,
and lay groups on cancer and cancer screening
Felismina Mendes: The daily management of an unwelcome inheritance.
Nanna Mik-Meyer: Managing 'risk' identities - Overweight and
fatness in present Western society
Antje Gimmler & Lisbeth B. Knudsen: Breast Cancer
Risk-Discourse - The Problematic Alliance of Epidemiological Studies
and Public Perception of Breast Cancer Risk
Chad Briggs: Vulnerable populations and environmental health
risk in post-conflict societies
Biography,
Risk and Uncertainty
Erika Alleweldt:
Friendships of young women in the risk society - consequences of modern
societal living requirements
Helga Pelizäus-Hoffmeister: The Importance
of Social Networks for Biographical Certainty
Victoria Semenova: Coping with risks in risk society' through
biographical research in Russia
Chantal Magnin: Individual coping with risks
of precarious employment in Switzerland
Herwig Reiter: Biographical uncertainty
in the transition to working life among young people in post-Soviet
Lithuania
Robert Miller: 'Matriarchy' as a Means of Coping with the Risk
of Sexual and Political Violence
Jens O. Zinn: The biographical management
of risk and uncertainty - British veterans
Tatiana Safonova & István Sántha: The
Biography of a Buryat Shaman: Risks as Resources of Reputation for Authority
among Hunters
Peter Simmons, Nick Pidgeon & Karen Henwood:
Nuclear narratives: risk, biography and place
Lesley Murray: The negotiation of the risk landscapes on the
way to school
Terrorism,
Risk and Uncertainty
Gabe Mythen: Postmodern
Terrorism and the 'What if?' Question: The Risks of Regulating the Hypothetical
Derek McGhee: Sledgehammer? An exploration of the British Raison
d'état Post 7/7
Theorizing
Risk and Uncertainty
Catalin Zamfir: A
Few Hypotheses about Decision under Uncertainty2
Helena Jeronimo: Trust, Uncertainties and Scientific Expertise
Magne Aarset & Johannes Brinkmann: Truly interdisciplinary
risk and insurance research
Ole Andreas Brekke & Thorvald Sirnes: The new Insecurity
- 'Risk Society' or 'State of Exception'?
Irina Sosunova & Konstantin Manolache: Social-ecological
conflicts as a factor of risk in Post-Soviet area (on example of Russia
and Moldova)
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