Trust, Risk, and Uncertainty

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.

Sean Watson is Principal Lecturer and Head of School of Sociology, and Anthony Moran is Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Critical Theory, both at University of the West of England.

List of Tables and Figures

vii

Acknowledgements

viii

Notes on the Contributors

ix

Introduction

1

(10)

Sean Watson and Anthony Moran

Part One: The Theory and Philosophy of Trust, Risk and Uncertainty

11

(76)

1 Radical Uncertainty: Human Emotion and Ethical Dilemmas

13

(13)

Paul Hoggett

2 Trust, Risk and Identity

26

(21)

Simon Thompson

3 Risk, Sensibility, Ethics and Justice in the Later Levinas

47

(26)

Peter Jowers

4 Moral Uncertainty, Feminism and Descartes' Demon

73

(16)

Alison Assiter

Part Two: Trust, Risk and Uncertainty in Institutions and Organisations

87

(76)

5 Trust, Risk and Expert Systems: Child Protection, Modernity and the (Changing) Management of Life and Death

89

(17)

Harry Ferguson

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

106

(17)

Arthur Baxter and Carolyn Britton

7 Managing Uncertainty and Subjectivity

123

(20)

Alit Nayak

8 Communities, Trust and Organisational Responses to Local Governance Failure

143

(22)

Tony Bovaird and Elke Loeffler

Part Three: Cultures of Risk The Uncertainties of Trust

163

(106)

9 Reporting Risk: Science Journalism and the Prospect of Human Cloning

165

(16)

Stuart Allan, Alison Anderson and Alan Petersen

10 Transgressive Terrain: Risk, Otherness and 'New Age' Nomadism

181

(22)

Leah Wild

11 Trusting Aggression: The Siennese War Machine as Social Capital

203

(21)

Lita Crociani-Windland

12 Trust and Uncertainty in a Settler Society: Relations between Settlers and Aborigines in Australia

224

(22)

Anthony Moran

13 Pan's People? Pagan Magic, Uncertainty and Embodied Desire

246

(23)

David Green

Index

269

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