In genetic counseling, a medical profession that focuses on inherited diseases, kinship is key to the identification of health risks. By eliciting family histories of disease, and in combination with genetic tests and information about patients
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In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 111–130 (20 total)
Uncertainty, Risk, and Merit-Making
Tea Economy and Religious Practices in a Southern Yunnan Bulang Community
Zhen Ma
period of self-contained swidden agriculture. However, with prosperity, the market also brought risks, confirming Ulrich Beck's (1992: 19) observation that “the social production of wealth is systematically accompanied by the social production of
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 88–109 (22 total)
Rationalizing risk
Arguing over safety on the Firth of Forth
Achim Schlüter and Peter Phillimore
This article examines the centrality of 'safety' in Grangemouth's recent politics. Scotland's main petrochemical center is a town dominated for well over fifty years by a major BP complex. In a context of extensive redundancies at BP, new insecurities surrounding the future of the company's Grangemouth site, and a series of recent accidents, as well as controversy over planning applications from other chemical companies, the town has been pushed into unusually searching questioning about both safety and economic security. This article explores the different lines of reasoning and rationalization on risk, safety, and the future advanced by regulators, BP, and residents and their political representatives. We emphasize how important the familiarity of petrochemical technology has been in public responses to the question of safety, in contrast to many environmental risk controversies. And we argue that safety has provided a focus for social, moral, economic, and political perspectives on the town's present circumstances and future prospects to be played out.
Lam Yee Man
More often than not, risk is the driving force for change in environmental development. For instance, the risk in the 1960s—the degradation of air and water in developed countries—gave rise to environmental movements worldwide in the 1970s. The risk
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 165–195 (31 total)
Ken MacLean
landmines consequently offers a strategic entry point into perceptions of different classes of risk and the strategies adopted toward managing them. Myanmar is the third most landmine-contaminated country in the world after Afghanistan and Colombia
Postcolonial Finance
The Political History of ‘Risk-Versus-Reward’ Investment in Emerging Markets
Cecilia Schultz
politicians, crony networks, and inadequate regulatory bodies create a distorted image of emerging market credit risk. Hallam (2015) claims to counter the conventional wisdom in investment discourse which postulates that, despite presenting a higher risk to
Theorizing “The Plunge”
(Queer) Girls’ Adolescence, Risk, and Subjectivity in Blue is the Warmest Color
Michelle Miller
highlight the possibilities of finding life after heartbreak. 3 Each version explores the adolescent girl’s experience of taking risks in forming an adult identity that feels both satisfying and real. Each features a young woman consumed with discovering
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 39–54 (16 total)
Calm Vessels
Cultural Expectations of Pregnant Women in Qatar
Susie Kilshaw, Daniel Miller, Halima Al Tamimi, Faten El-Taher, Mona Mohsen, Nadia Omar, Stella Major, and Kristina Sole
and Inhorn 2003 ) and, thus, our overall aim was to explore reproductive disruption ( Inhorn 2007 ) in Qatar. However, this article is derived from the first stage of fieldwork, which focused on pregnancy in Qatar. We explored notions of risk as well
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 39–59 (21 total)
Higher education in the paradigm of speed
Student perspectives on the risks of fast-track degree completion
Laura Louise Sarauw and Simon Ryberg Madsen
order to show the multiple logics that govern student choices and the way they perceive risks to their education and futures, our analysis is framed within theoretical ideas of ‘risk’ as defined by Ulrich Beck and ‘translation’ as explained by Bruno
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 1–23 (23 total)
Teppo Eskelinen
avoid financial collapse, implying that the situation was caused by existing risk structures. In this article, I argue that in contemporary capitalism, the ascent of finance as a dominant social force compels us to address specifically the issue of