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Risk Work - Methodological, Conceptual and Theoretical Developments
Risk Work - Methodological, Conceptual and Theoretical Developments
Abstract Submissions Closed
Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 10:45-12:15
Location:
TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Many public and private sector employees are required to work with ‘risk’. This may involve assessing risk as a basis of interventions, interpreting and explaining risk to individuals or organisations and encouraging these clients to act to reduce this risk, or creating risk knowledge through research or compiling guidelines. These different forms of 'risk work' appear rather distinct from one another yet they often share important characteristics: being held to account and holding others accountable; 'muddling through' by combining different modes of handling uncertainty to deal with practical challenges; pressurised experiences of carrying out such work within policy, organisational and/or professional contexts where accuracy and/or effectiveness is demanded but often unattainable. This session invites papers which develop concepts, analytical frameworks or methodological approaches for better understanding the drivers, processes and/or consequences of this risk work. Papers grounded in specific empirical studies are especially welcome but more abstract frameworks/approaches will also be considered.
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