RISK

First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008

Thematic Group on 
Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty TG04

Main theme
The end of rationality? The challenge of new risks and uncertainties in the 21st century

Programme Coordinator
Jens Zinn, University of Kent, UK, j.zinn@kent.ac.uk

Session 1: Risks in financial markets

Chair: Helena Flam, University of Leipzig, Germany, flam@sozio.uni-leipzig.de

Session 2: Sociology of risk and uncertainty and public debate

Chair: Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent, UK, p.f.taylor-gooby@kent.ac.uk

Session 3: Rationalities of governance and regulation

Chair: Bridget Hutter, LSE, UK, B.M.Hutter@lse.ac.uk

Session 4: Biographical coping with risk and uncertainty

Joint session of RC38 Biography and Society and TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty 
Chairs: Jens O. Zinn, University of Kent, UK, j.zinn@kent.ac.uk and Brian Roberts, Leeds, UK, broberts@glam.ac.uk

Session 5: The everyday management of risk

Chair: Tom Horlick-Jones, Cardiff, UK, horlick-jonest@Cardiff.ac.uk

Session 6: Edgework and voluntary risk taking

Tom Baker, University of Connecticut, USA, Tom.Baker@law.uconn.edu,

Session 7: The morality of risk - Risk moralities

Chair: Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley, USA, jsimon@law.berkeley.edu

Session 8: Power, democracy and risk

Chair: Pat O'Malley, University of Sydney, Australia, pomalley@usyd.edu.au

Session 9: Theorizing risk and uncertainty

Chair: Jens O. Zinn, University of Kent, UK, j.zinn@kent.ac.uk

Session 10: Risk in decision making

Chairs: Judith Mehta, j.mehta@uea.ac.uk, and Graham Loomes, g.loomes@uea.ac.uk, University of East Anglia, UK

Session 11: Social work and risk

Chair: Jo Warner, University of Kent, UK, J.Warner@kent.ac.uk,

Session 12: Risk and crime and prevention

Chair. Hazel Kemshall, De Montfort University, UK, kemshall@dmu.ac.uk

Session 13: Risk as media event

Chair: Jenny Kitzinger, University Cardiff, UK, kitzingerj@cardiff.ac.uk

Session 14: Risk, difference and social inequality

Chair: David Abbott, University of Bristol, UK, D.Abbott@bristol.ac.uk

Session 15: Socio-cultural differences

Asa Boholm, Göteborg University, Sweden, Asa Boholm, asa.boholm@cefos.gu.se

Session 16: Risk and health and illness

Chair. Andy Alaszewski, University of Kent, UK, A.M.Alaszewski@kent.ac.uk

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