Emotions, Trust, Hope and Other Approaches of Managing Uncertainty and Non-Knowledge. Part II

Sociological approaches emphasise that risks do not simply exist, indeed perceptions of “risks” are embedded within various processes of valuing and categorising an unknown future. In this light risk becomes one way of approaching uncertainty but other mechanisms are also applied in everyday life, such as faith, hope, trust and intuition complementing calculative approaches.
This session welcomes papers which explore one or more of these different ways in which organisations, groups and individuals attempt to cope with uncertainty. We especially welcome studies which consider various ways in which different processes, risk and hope for example, exist alongside one another; or where, for example, trust and mistrust are experienced concurrently in certain situations.