Matthew Kearnes, Francisco Klauser, and Stuart Lane.
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1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Pt. 1. Practices in risk research -- pt. 2. Politics in risk research -- pt. 3. Ethics in risk research
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"Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics offers a collection of essays, written by a wide variety of international researchers in risk research, about what it means to do risk research, and about how - and with what effects - risk research is practiced, articulated and exploited. This approach is based upon the core assumption that: to make a difference in the study of risk, we must move beyond what we usually do, challenging the core assumptions, scientific, economic and social, about how we study, frame, exploit and govern risk. Hence, through a series of essays, the book aims to challenge the current ways in which risk-problems are approached and presented, both conceptually by academics and through the framings that are encoded in the technologies and socio-political and institutional practices used to manage risk."--