WG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty

Program Coordinators:

Aiste BALZEKIENE, Kaunas university of Technology, Lithuania, aiste.balzekiene@ktu.lt

Jens O. ZINN, University of Melbourne, Australia, jzinn@unimelb.edu.au


Sessions:


Caring amidst Uncertainty

Coloniality of Risks. Perspectives from the Global South

Comparative Risk Perception Research

Crisis Method/Ologies: Sociology between Co-Creation and Co-Optation

Data Reuse, Open Science and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty

Exploring Spatial Dimension of Risk

Governing the Unknown: How State Bureaucracies Identify, Assess, and Manage Risk

Language, Discourse and Imaginaries of Risk

Linkages of Migration and Risk

Living Alongside Wildlife: Risk, Society and Coexistence

Navigating Risk and Uncertainty In Everyday Life

Nuclear Risk Perceptions and Discourses

Risk and Crisis Communication

Risk and Uncertainty In Health

Sociology of Trust In Relation to Health and Healthcare

The Imperative for Hope amidst Contemporary Perils

Theorizing Risk and Uncertainty

Uncertain Ecologies: Environment, Society, and Everyday Life

Unpredictable Climate Change, Societal Risk and Global Uncertainty