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| Author / Creator: | Lupton, Deborah. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. |
| Description: | vi, 184 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Key ideas |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3784968 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Changes in the meaning of risk This book
- Chapter 2. Theorizing Risk: The cognitive science perspective Sociocultural perspectives Social construcitonist positions Concluding comments
- Chapter 3. Risk and culture: The importance of culture Purity, danger and the body Risk and blame The grid-group model Concluding comments
- Chapter 4. Risk and reflexive modernization: Beck and the 'risk society' Reflexive modernization Individualization Giddens' perspectives on risk Trust Concluding comments
- Chapter 5. Risk and governmentality: Governmentality From dangerousness to risk Contemporary risk strategies Concluding comments
- Chapter 6. Risk and subjectivity: Risk knowledges and relexivity Social structures and power relations Aesthetic and habitual dimensions Concluding comments
- Chapter 7. Risk and Otherness: Embodiment Hybridity and liminality The psychodynamics of Otherness Spatiality and Otherness Concluding comments
- Chapter 8. Risk and pleasure: Escape attempts and edgework Risk-taking as gendered performances Desire and transgression Concluding comments
- Bibliography
- Index
