Theorizing Risk and Uncertainty

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: SJES019 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (host committee)

Language: English

This session invites papers which contribute to conceptual questions regarding risk and uncertainty or respond to theoretical debates. There are a large range of issues from the epistemological status of risk to the understanding of social inequalities through the lens of risk, from historical dynamics to the complexities of risk governance, from large societal theories of risk to the micro-dynamics of sensemaking, from the discourse semantics of risk to the everyday practices. We are looking forward to papers which address all kinds of theoretical and conceptual debate in particular but not restricted to the theme of the ISA-Forum.
Session Organizer:
Jens O. ZINN, University of Melbourne, Australia
Oral Presentations
Uncertainty in Health: Theoretical and Empirical Debates
Aurea IANNI, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Exaptive Resilience: Reconceptualizing Resilience As a Catalyst for Transformative Social Change
David KOLLAR, Századvég Foundation, Hungary; Bernadett MISKOLCZI, University of Pecs - Applied Ontology Research Group, Hungary
Conceptual Framework for Understanding Child Vulnerability As the Risk of Harm to a Child’s Well-Being
Oliver NAHKUR, University of Tartu, Estonia
Confinement, Risk and Uncertainty: The Psychosocial Impacts of Prison Work
Federico CAETANO GRAU, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la república, Uruguay
Towards a Theory of Magical Phenomena and Their (un)Questionability
Patrick BROWN, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Risk Communication in the Public Sphere – from Habermas to Post-Truth and Back?
Jens O. ZINN, University of Melbourne, Australia
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