Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies

✍ Scribed by Anna Olofsson, Jens O. Zinn

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 387
• Series: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change.

This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies approach uncertain futures and their potential dangers.

The contributions illustrate the usefulness of particular methods and methodologies for researching risk in order to advance the understanding and management of social, technological and environmental challenges.

With research strategies and approaches from sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, anthropology, and gender studies, Researching Risk and Uncertainty provides guidance and inspiration to students and scholars across a range of disciplines interested in risk, disaster and social crisis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction (Jens O. Zinn, Anna Olofsson)....Pages 1-28
Front Matter ....Pages 29-29
Seeing Risk and Risking Seeing: Studying Audiences in Participatory Visual Research (Claudia Mitchell)....Pages 31-51
Key Points of Interactive Research: An Ethnographic Approach to Risk (Roanne van Voorst, Dorothea Hilhorst)....Pages 53-76
Virtual Ethnography: Managing Pharmacological Risk and Uncertainty in Online Drug Forums (Moritz Berning, Anita Hardon)....Pages 77-101
Front Matter ....Pages 103-103
The Domestic Cycle Approach as Methodological Strategy in Risk Research (Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez)....Pages 105-127
Investigating Risk: Methodological Insights from Interpretive Social Science and Sustainable Energy Transitions Research (Karen Henwood)....Pages 129-152
The Problem-Centred Approach for Researching Biographical Uncertainty and Risk (Herwig Reiter)....Pages 153-180
Using Repeat Interviewing and Diaries to Research the Impact of Life-Threatening Events: The Example of Stroke Survivors’ Narratives (Andy Alaszewski)....Pages 181-204
Interviews as a Means of Exploring Risk Lifeworlds: Excavating the Roots of Everyday Meanings, Experiences and Practices (Patrick Brown, Gerben Moerman, Christian Bröer)....Pages 205-230
Front Matter ....Pages 231-231
International Comparative Surveys in Risk Perception Research: Data Sets, Construction of Questionnaires, and Analytical Dimensions (Aistė Balžekienė)....Pages 233-263
Quantitative Analysis of Risk Positions: An Exploratory Approach (Susanna Öhman, Anna Olofsson)....Pages 265-286
Front Matter ....Pages 287-287
Tracing Discourses and Uncovering the ‘Performativity’ of Risk: Exploring the Role of Discourse Analysis in Studies of Risk and Inequality (Katarina Giritli Nygren)....Pages 289-307
Investigating Risk, Uncertainty and Normativity Within the Framework of Digital Discourse Analysis: Renewable Energies in Climate Change Discourse (Marcus Müller, Jörn Stegmeier)....Pages 309-335
Utilising Corpus Linguistic Tools for Analysing Social Change in Risk (Jens O. Zinn)....Pages 337-366
Concluding Thoughts and Perspectives for Interdisciplinary Risk Research (Jens O. Zinn, Anna Olofsson)....Pages 367-375
Back Matter ....Pages 377-384

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Ethnography; Sociolinguistics