Culture and Risk

Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty: An Introduction

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 138-167

  Tulloch, John ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beck's thesis focusing on globalization of risks to the planet itself; Critical realism and left criminology; Culture and risk; Mary Douglas and cultural boundaries; Risk and governmentality; Sociocultural analysis of risk a growing field drawing on sociology, anthropology, criminology, cultural media studies, and literary studies; The writer as risk victim and academic; Ulrich Beck and risk society

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889351558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301489.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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