Trust, risk and uncertainty

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Trust, risk and uncertainty

edited by Sean Watson and Anthony Moran

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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