Trust, Risk and Uncertainty

The themes 'trust', 'risk ' and 'uncertainty' seem especially pertinent in the context of the post-9/11 world. This book brings together a range of new research with a focus on the 'risk society' debate and on the themes of 'trust', 'uncertainty' and 'ambivalence'. Where much of the work within these crucial debates in the social sciences has been theory-based and theory-driven, Trust, Risk and Uncertainty combines theoretical sophistication with empirical analysis and research in the fields of philosophy, education, social policy, government, health and social care, sociology, and media and cultural studies.

Auteur
STUART ALLAN Reader, School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, UK ALISON ANDERSON Principal Lecturer in Sociology, University of Plymouth, UK ALISON ASSITER Professor of Feminist Theory and Assistant Vice Chancellor, University of the West of England, UK ARTHUR BAXTER Principal Lecturer in Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of the West of England, UK TONY BOVAIRD Professor of Strategy and Public Service Management, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK CAROLYN BRITTON Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of the west of England, UK LITA CROCIANI-WINDLAND Part-time Lecturer and Research Student, University of the West of England, UK HARRY FERGUSON Professor of Social Work, University of the West of England, UK DAVID GREEN Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of the West of England, UK PAUL HOGGETT Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Psycho- Social Studies, University of the West of England, UK PETER JOWERS Senior Lecturer in Politics, Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of the West of England, UK ELKE LOEFFLER Chief Executive of Governance International, UK AJIT NAYAK Senior Lecturer in Strategy and International Business, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK ALAN PETERSEN Professor of Sociology of Health and Illness, School of Sociology, Politics and Law, University of Plymouth, UK SIMON THOMPSON Senior Lecturer in Politics, Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of the West of England, UK LEAH WILD teaches sociology at the University of the West of England and the University of Bath, UK

Contenu
Introduction; S.Watson & A.Moran PART ONE: THE THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF TRUST, RISK AND UNCERTAINTY Radical Uncertainty: Human Emotion and Ethical Dilemmas; P.Hoggett Trust, Risk and Identity; S.Thompson Risk, Sensibility, Ethics and Justice in the Later Levinas; P.Jowers Moral Uncertainty, Feminism and Descartes' Demon; A.Assiter PART TWO: TRUST, RISK AND UNCERTAINTY IN INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS Trust, Risk and Expert Systems: Child Protection, Modernity and the (changing) Management of Life and Death; H.Ferguson 'They Kind of Think I'm Better Than They Are': Risk, Identity and Change in the Lives of Mature Students in Higher Education; A.Baxter & C.Britton Managing Uncertainty and Subjectivity; A.Nayak Communities, Trust and Organisational Responses to Local Governance Failure; T.Bovaird & E.Loeffler PART THREE: CULTURES OF RISK, THE UNCERTAINTIES OF TRUST Reporting Risk: Science, Journalism and the Prospect of Human Cloning; S.Allan, A.Anderson & A.Petersen Transgressive Terrain: Risk, Otherness and 'New Age' Nomadism; L.Wild Trusting Aggression: The Siennese War Machine as Social Capital; L.Crociani-Windland Trust and Uncertainty in a Settler Society: Relations Between Settlers and Aborigines in Australia; A.Moran Pan's People ? Pagan Magic, Uncertainty, and Embodied Desire; D.Green