Risk & Rationalities
29-31 March 2007
Queens'
College, Cambridge
(Link to College, maps, transport etc)
(Please note there may inevitably be some amendments to streams programme)
How people identify and manage risks and uncertainties are central concerns
in the policy and social sciences. These issues are becoming more pressing
as a result of social, economic and political changes and of developments
in theory. Different approaches draw on different rationalities, stressing
the importance of rational action, of culture, of emotions and affect,
of everyday cognitive heuristics, of intuition and of the role of trust.
Conference streams will include:
- The dynamics of risk: change and development in risk rationales
- Approaches to risk in different disciplines: rational actors, psychometrics
and cultural values
- Government and responses to risk
- Varying rationalities in the management and regulation of risk
- The advantages and limitations of heuristics
- Affect and emotion in explaining risk responses
- Trust and risk
- Rationales of power, conduct and resistance
- General stream
Full papers to be put on the conference website will be required by Friday
19th January 2007.
Please note poster presentations are welcome.
We intend to publish a volume based on the conference and will be considering
papers for inclusion.
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