Trust, Risk, and Uncertainty

✍ Scribed by Sean Watson, Anthony Moran

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited collection focuses on recently emerging debates around the themes of "risk", "trust", "uncertainty", and "ambivalence." Where much of the work on these themes in the social sciences has been theory based and driven, this book combines theoretical sophistication with close to the ground analysis and research in the fields of philosophy, education, social policy, government, health and social care, politics and cultural studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Part One: The Theory and Philosophy of Trust, Risk and Uncertainty......Page 24
1 Radical Uncertainty: Human Emotion and Ethical Dilemmas......Page 26
2 Trust, Risk and Identity......Page 39
3 Risk, Sensibility, Ethics and Justice in the Later Levinas......Page 60
4 Moral Uncertainty, Feminism and Descartes' Demon......Page 86
Part Two: Trust, Risk and Uncertainty in Institutions and Organisations......Page 100
5 Trust, Risk and Expert Systems: Child Protection, Modernity and the (Changing) Management of Life and Death......Page 102
6 'They kind of think that I'm better than they are': Risk, Identity and Change in the Lives of Mature Students in Higher Education......Page 119
7 Managing Uncertainty and Subjectivity......Page 136
8 Communities, Trust and Organisational Responses to Local Governance Failure......Page 156
Part Three: Cultures of Risk The Uncertainties of Trust......Page 176
9 Reporting Risk: Science Journalism and the Prospect of Human Cloning......Page 178
10 Transgressive Terrain: Risk, Otherness and 'New Age' Nomadism......Page 194
11 Trusting Aggression: The Siennese War Machine as Social Capital......Page 216
12 Trust and Uncertainty in a Settler Society: Relations between Settlers and Aborigines in Australia......Page 237
13 Pan's People? Pagan Magic, Uncertainty and Embodied Desire......Page 259
B......Page 282
E......Page 283
I......Page 284
O......Page 285
R......Page 286
T......Page 287
Y......Page 288