Description: Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction: Changes in the meaning of risk This book Chapter 2. Theorizing Risk: The cognitive science perspective Sociocultural perspectives Social construcitonist positions Concluding comments Chapter 3. Risk and culture: The importance of culture Purity, danger and the body Risk and blame The grid-group model Concluding comments Chapter 4. Risk and reflexive modernization: Beck and the 'risk society' Reflexive modernization Individualization Giddens' perspectives on risk Trust Concluding comments Chapter 5. Risk and governmentality: Governmentality From dangerousness to risk Contemporary risk strategies Concluding comments Chapter 6. Risk and subjectivity: Risk knowledges and relexivity Social structures and power relations Aesthetic and habitual dimensions Concluding comments Chapter 7. Risk and Otherness: Embodiment Hybridity and liminality The psychodynamics of Otherness Spatiality and Otherness Concluding comments Chapter 8. Risk and pleasure: Escape attempts and edgework Risk-taking as gendered performances Desire and transgression Concluding comments Bibliography Index

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