Book description
Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics
offers a collection of essays, written by a wide variety of
international researchers in risk research, about what it means to do
risk research, and about how - and with what effects - risk research is
practiced, articulated and exploited.
This approach is based upon the
core assumption that: to make a difference in the study of risk, we
must move beyond what we usually do, challenging the core assumptions,
scientific, economic and social, about how we study, frame, exploit
and govern risk. Hence, through a series of essays, the book aims to
challenge the current ways in which risk-problems are approached and
presented, both conceptually by academics and through the framings
that are encoded in the technologies and socio-political and
institutional practices used to manage risk.
In addressing these questions, the book does not attempt to offer a
model of how risk research 'should' be done. Rather, the book
provides, through illustration, a challenge to the ways in which risk
research is framed as 'problem-solving.' The book's ultimate objective
aims to increase critical debate between different disciplines,
approaches, concepts and problems.
