Trust, Risk and Uncertainty

✍ Scribed by Sean Watson, Anthony Moran (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 284
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Radical Uncertainty: Human Emotion and Ethical Dilemmas....Pages 13-25
Trust, Risk and Identity....Pages 26-46
Risk, Sensibility, Ethics and Justice in the later Levinas....Pages 47-72
Moral Uncertainty, Feminism and Descartes’ Demon....Pages 73-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Trust, Risk and Expert Systems: Child Protection, Modernity and the (Changing) Management of Life and Death....Pages 89-105
‘They kind of think that I’m better than they are’: Risk, Identity and Change in the Lives of Mature Students in Higher Education....Pages 106-122
Managing Uncertainty and Subjectivity....Pages 123-142
Communities, Trust and Organisational Responses to Local Governance Failure....Pages 143-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Reporting Risk: Science Journalism and the Prospect of Human Cloning....Pages 165-180
Transgressive Terrain: Risk, Otherness and ‘New Age’ Nomadism....Pages 181-202
Trusting Aggression: The Siennese War Machine as Social Capital....Pages 203-223
Trust and Uncertainty in a Settler Society: Relations between Settlers and Aborigines in Australia....Pages 224-245
Pan’s People? Pagan Magic, Uncertainty and Embodied Desire....Pages 246-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-275

✦ Subjects

Social Theory; Philosophy of Education; Ethics; Sociology, general

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