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
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 165–195 (31 total)
Ken MacLean
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. According to
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
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- 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
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 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
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 1–23 (23 total)
Interiority and government of the child
Transparency, risk, and good governance in Indonesia
Jan Newberry
shifts from trauma to risk in theory and global governance exemplify a shift from interiority to exteriority in both conceptions of the self and the state that arose in the developed North Atlantic but have now traveled to Indonesia and other parts of the
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
Gauging the Propagandist's Talents
William Le Queux's Dubious Place in Literary History: Part One
A. Michael Matin
wartime. In terms of methodology, the central aim is to augment means for gauging Le Queux's efficacy as a propagandist by developing and applying to his polemical writings an approach based on recent advances in the study of risk perception. In an earlier