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Cultures and crises : understanding risk and resolution / Mary Douglas ; edited by Richard Fardon.
Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2013Description: xiii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781446254660 (hbk.)
- 1446254666 (hbk.)
- 306 DOU
Contents:
Introduction:
How Cultures Precipitate Risk and Resolution / Richard Fardon.
Part 1: Cultural theory. The Language of Emotions in the Social Sciences;
Emotion and Culture in Theories of Justice;
Institutions: Problems of Theory;
Four Cultures: The Evolution of a Parsimonious Model.
Part 2: Culture and climate. Human Needs and Wants / Des Gasper, Steven Ney and Michael Thompson;
Is Time Running out? The Case of Global Warming / Michael Thompson and Marco Verweij;
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: The Case of Climate Change / Marco Verweij et al;
An Aesthetic View of the Relation between Culture and Nature;
Postscript: The Future of Clumsiness / Christoph Engel, Michael Thompson and Marco Verweij.
Part 3: Institutionalized risks. The Risks of the Risk Officer;
Dangerization and the End of Deviance: The Institutional Environment / Michalis Lianos;
Postscript / Michalis Lianos;
errorism: A Positive Feedback Game / Gerald Mars;
Postscript / Gerald Mars;
Being Fair to Hierarchists;
Traditional Culture: Let's Hear no More about It;
End piece: The Selfish Giant / Oscar Wilde
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Introduction:
How Cultures Precipitate Risk and Resolution / Richard Fardon.
Part 1: Cultural theory. The Language of Emotions in the Social Sciences;
Emotion and Culture in Theories of Justice;
Institutions: Problems of Theory;
Four Cultures: The Evolution of a Parsimonious Model.
Part 2: Culture and climate. Human Needs and Wants / Des Gasper, Steven Ney and Michael Thompson;
Is Time Running out? The Case of Global Warming / Michael Thompson and Marco Verweij;
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: The Case of Climate Change / Marco Verweij et al;
An Aesthetic View of the Relation between Culture and Nature;
Postscript: The Future of Clumsiness / Christoph Engel, Michael Thompson and Marco Verweij.
Part 3: Institutionalized risks. The Risks of the Risk Officer;
Dangerization and the End of Deviance: The Institutional Environment / Michalis Lianos;
Postscript / Michalis Lianos;
errorism: A Positive Feedback Game / Gerald Mars;
Postscript / Gerald Mars;
Being Fair to Hierarchists;
Traditional Culture: Let's Hear no More about It;
End piece: The Selfish Giant / Oscar Wilde
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