A Framework of Intersectional Risk Theory in the Age of Ambivalence

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-33526-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 276 g

Reihe: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

This book brings feminist theories and concepts to the sociology of risk in an attempt to carve out a framework for intersectional risk theories in times of ambivalence.

The authors purport that risk is pervasive in the Global North, and is fast becoming a hegemonic governing principle. In order to understand this crucial aspect of society, sociological risk theories and risk analysis must go beyond power and social inequalities, to incorporate an intersectional risk approach that takes into account gender, race and other critical perspectives. Their proposed framework will provide the tools to assess how risk is situated in different configurations of power, revealing cracks and openings in the weft of power and rethinking risk governance in contemporary society.



By utilising an intersectional and nuanced analysis, the everyday understanding, practices and discourses of risk can be explored and better understood. This book will be of interest to scholars and students who value the importance of establishing interdisciplinary networks between risk theory, sociology, politics and more in order to study the contemporary world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giritli Nygren, Katarina

Öhman, Susanna

Olofsson, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Age of Ambivalence.- 2. Conceptual Frames: Risk and Intersectionality.- 3. Risk, Inequality, and (Post) Structure: Risks as Governing.- 4. The Performative Aspects of Risk and the Constitution of Subjects.- 5. Doing, Redoing, and Doing Away: Performing Risk.- 6. The Lived Experience of Risk: Multiple Standpoints and Agencies.- 7. Risk Networks: Actors, Actants, and Assemblages.- 8. Methodological Applications.- 9. Risk, Intersectionality, and Ambivalence—A Way to Understand Inequality.- Epilogue: Imagining the Future Differently.

Über Autor(innen)

Katarina Giritli Nygren is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Forum for Gender Studies, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Anna Olofsson is Professor of Sociology at Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.



Susanna Öhman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.