Trust us and be scared: The changing nature of contemporary risk

Global Society

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 119-130

  Handmer, John ^a   James, Paul ^a  

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Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL THEORY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL THEORY; TERRORISM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34347240788     PISSN: 13600826     EISSN: 1469798X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13600820601116609     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Ulrich Beck, Risk Society (London: Sage, 1992)
2. Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (New York: Vintage Books, 1964)
3. David Lyon, The Information Society (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988)
4. Michael Power, The Audit Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
5. Joost van Loon, Risk and Technological Society: Towards a Sociology of Virulence (London: Routledge, 2002). He argues along similar lines, identifying the practices of "visualization, signification and valorization", p. 97.
6. Owen Ingles explores the development of the language of risk and uncertainty. "A Linguistic Approach to Hazard, Risk and Error", in John Handmer et al., New Perspectives on Risk and Uncertainty (Mt Macedon: Australian Counter Disaster College, 1991).
7. Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash, Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994), p. 5.
8. Ibid., pp. 5-6.
9. Beck, Risk Society, op. cit., p. 72.
10. See, for example, Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Ch. 9: "Insurance Business: The Risk Managers".
11. Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-industrial Society: AVenture in Social Forecasting (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976), p. 20.
12. Brian Wynne, among many others examines different forms of knowledge: "Risk and Social Learning: From Reification to Engagement", in Sheldon Krimsky and Dominic Golding (eds.), Social Theories of Risk (New York: Praeger, 1992).
13. Jeremy Hope, "Foreword" to the book by Steve Player and Roberto Lacerda, Arthur Andersen's Global Lessons in Activity-based Management (New York: John Wiley, 1999), p. xi.
14. Power, The Audit Society, op. cit., p. 85.
15. Ian Ward, "An Australian PR State?", Paper presented to the ANZCA03 Conference, Brisbane, July 2003.
16. Source: Adapted from B. Fischhoff, Risk Perception and Communication Unplugged: Twenty Years of Progress", Risk Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1995), pp. 137-145.
17. Quoted in The Australian (2 April 2005). P. 14.
18. Quoted in The Age (11 August 2003). P. 10.
19. Kai T. Erikson examines some of these problems in A New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters (New York: Norton, 1995).
20. Beck argues that we feign control over the more abstract and uncontrollable risks. See "The Terrorist Threat:WOrld Risk Society Revisited", Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 19, No. 4 (2002) pp. 35-55.