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Modes of Uncertainty offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Our world, the contributors show, is increasingly populated by forms, practices, and events whose uncertainty cannot be reduced to risk-and thus it is v...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bennett, Gaymon (Contribuidor), Keck, Frédéric (Contribuidor), Kidron, Carol A. (Contribuidor), Lemov, Rebecca (Contribuidor), O'Malley, Pat (Contribuidor), Petryna, Adriana (Contribuidor), Rabinow, Paul (Contribuidor, Editor ), Samimian-Darash, Limor (Contribuidor, Editor ), Schüll, Natasha Dow (Contribuidor), Stalcup, Meg (Contribuidor), Wilf, Eitan (Contribuidor), Zeiderman, Austin (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Temas:
Risk > Sociological aspects.
Uncertainty > Economic aspects.
Uncertainty > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
anthropology, anthropologist, anthropological, academic, scholarly, research, groundbreaking, risk, danger, uncertainty, analysis, fear, worry, analytical, critique, critical, assessment, study, definition, policy, government, subfield, economics, business, security, humanitarianism, health, environment, management, unknown, uncertain, contemporary, modern, social studies, sociological.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Economics and Entrepreneurialism
  • CHAPTER ONE. Uncertainty Makes Us Free: Insurance and Liberal Rationality
  • CHAPTER TWO. The "Cool" Organization Man: Incorporating Uncertainty from Jazz Music into the Business World
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Gaming of Chance: Online Poker Software and the Potentialization of Uncertainty
  • PART TWO. Security and Humanitarianism
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Policing Uncertainty: On Suspicious Activity Reporting
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Guantánamo's Catch- 22: The Uncertain Interrogation Subject
  • CHAPTER SIX. Global Humanitarian Interventions: Managing Uncertain Trajectories of Cambodian Mental Health
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The Malicious and the Uncertain: Biosecurity, Self-Justification, and the Arts of Living
  • PART THREE. Environment and Health
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. What Is a Horizon? Navigating Thresholds in Climate Change Uncertainty
  • CHAPTER NINE. Sentinel Devices: Managing Uncertainty in Species Barrier Zones
  • CHAPTER TEN. Spaces of Uncertainty: Governing Urban Environmental Hazards
  • AFTERWORD. Problematization and Uncertainty
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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