 | Anthropology and Risk Subjects: Built Environment; Communication Studies; Global Development; Earth Sciences; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Politics & International Relations; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Risk Communication; Sustainable Development; Environmental Studies; Environmental Policy; Environmental Management; Environmental Politics; Anthropology; Anthropology; Health and Safety; Earth Sciences; Business Management and Accounting; Sociology & Social Policy; Risk Assessment; Risk Management; Ethnology; Environmental Anthropology; Ethnography & Methodology; Social & Cultural Anthropology; Natural Hazards & Risk; Social Policy; Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in society are conditioned by knowledge claims and cultural assumptions and by the orientationof actors based on roles, norms, expectations, identities, trust and practical rationality within a lived social world. By focusing on agency, social complexity and the production and interpretation of meaning, the book offers a comprehensive and holistic theoretical perspective on risk, based on empirical case studies and ethnographic enquiry. As a selection of Åsa Boholm's publications throughout her career, along with a newly written introduction overviewing the field, this book provides a unified perspective on risk as a construct shaped by social and cultural contexts.This collection should be of interest to students and scholars of risk communication, risk management, environmental planning, environmental management and environmental and applied anthropology. Åsa Boholm is Professor of Social Anthropology at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and has published on historical, cultural, organizational and institutional dimensions of risk for over twenty years. |
