Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)

Hardcover, xv + 384 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: 1 Introduction; Part I Visual and Ethnographic Methods -- 2 Seeing Risk and Risking Seeing: Studying Audiences in Participatory Visual Research / Claudia Mitchell; 3 Key Points of Interactive Research: An Ethnographic Approach to Risk / Roanne van Voorst & Dorothea Hilhorst; 4 Virtual Ethnography: Managing Pharmacological Risk and Uncertainty in Online Drug Forums / Moritz Berning & Anita Hardon; Part II Narrative, Biographical & Mixed Analyses -- 5 Domestic Cycle Approach as Methodological Strategy in Risk Research / Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez; 6 Investigating Risk: Methodological Insights from Interpretive Social Science & Sustainable Energy Transitions Research / Karen Henwood; 7 Problem-Centred Approach for Researching Biographical Uncertainty & Risk / Herwig Reiter; 8 Using Repeat Interviewing and Diaries to Research the Impact of Life-Threatening Events: Example of Stroke Survivors' Narratives / Andy Alaszewski; 9 Interviews as a Means of Exploring Risk Lifeworlds: Excavating the Roots of Everyday Meanings, Experiences and Practices / Patrick Brown; Part III Surveys & Statistical Methods -- 10 International Comparative Surveys in Risk Perception Research: Data Sets, Construction of Questionnaires, and Analytical Dimensions / Aiste Balzekiene; 11 Quantitative Analysis of Risk Positions: An Exploratory Approach / Susanna Öhman; Part IV Discourse and Semantic Analyses -- 12 Tracing Discourses and Uncovering the 'Performativity' of Risk: Exploring the Role of Discourse Analysis in Studies of Risk & Inequality / Katarina Giritli Nygren; 13 Investigating Risk, Uncertainty & Normativity Within the Framework of Digital Discourse Analysis: Renewable Energies in Climate Change Discourse / Marcus Müller & Jörn Stegmeier; 14 Utilising Corpus Linguistic Tools for Analysing Social Change in Risk / Jens O. Zinn; 15 Concluding Thoughts and Perspectives for Interdisciplinary Risk Research; Index -- Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change. This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies approach uncertain futures and their potential dangers. The contributions illustrate the usefulness of particular methods and methodologies for researching risk in order to advance the understanding and management of social, technological and environmental challenges. With research strategies and approaches from sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, anthropology, and gender studies, Researching Risk and Uncertainty provides guidance and inspiration to students and scholars across a range of disciplines interested in risk, disaster and social crisis. -- The series publishes monographs, edited volumes and Palgrave Pivots that capture and analyse how societies, organisations, groups and individuals experience and confront uncertain futures. An array of approaches for mitigating vulnerability to undesired futures has emerged within social contexts around the world and across history, with risk being seen as an especially salient technique to have emerged within, while also characterising, processes of modernisation. These approaches have attracted the critical attention of scholars across a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines including sociology, anthropology, geography, history, psychology, economics, linguistics, philosophy and political science. This series will provide a multidisciplinary home to consolidate this dynamic and growing academic field, bringing together and representing the state of the art on various topics within the broader domain of critical studies of risk and uncertainty.…