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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

Venue ofTG04 sessions:

Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona
Montalegre, 6
08001 Barcelona, Spain, map

 

Session 1: Rationalities of governance and regulation

Part I
Friday, September 5, 2008, 15:30-17:30

Part II
Friday, September 5, 2008, 18:00-20:00

Part III
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00

Part IV
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Bridget Hutter, LSE, UK, B.M.Hutter@lse.ac.uk

Session 2: The morality of risk - Risk moralities

Part I
Friday, September 5, 2008, 15:30-17:30

Part II
Friday, September 5, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Chair: Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley, USA, jsimon@law.berkeley.edu

Session 3: Risks in financial markets

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Helena Flam, University of Leipzig, Germany, flam@sozio.uni-leipzig.de

Session 4: Theorizing risk and uncertainty

Part I
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30

Part II
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Jens O. Zinn, University of Kent, UK, j.zinn@kent.ac.uk

Session 5: Risk in decision making

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Chairs: Judith Mehta, j.mehta@uea.ac.uk, and Graham Loomes, g.loomes@uea.ac.uk, University of East Anglia, UK

Session 6: Power, democracy and risk

Part I
Monday, September 8, 2008, 09:00-11:00

Part II
Monday, September 8, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Pat O'Malley, University of Sydney, Australia, pomalley@usyd.edu.au

Session 7: Risk and health and illness

Part I
Friday, September 5, 2008, 15:30-17:30

Part II
Friday, September 5, 2008, 18:00-20:00

Part III
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00

Part IV
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair. Andy Alaszewski, University of Kent, UK, A.M.Alaszewski@kent.ac.uk

Session 8: Social work and risk

Part I
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30

Part II
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Chair: Jo Warner, University of Kent, UK, J.Warner@kent.ac.uk

Session 9: Risk and crime and prevention

Part I
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00

Part II
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair. Hazel Kemshall, De Montfort University, UK, kemshall@dmu.ac.uk

Session 10: Risk, difference and social inequality

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: David Abbott, University of Bristol, UK, D.Abbott@bristol.ac.uk

Session 11: Socio-cultural differences

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Chair: Asa Boholm, Göteborg University, Sweden,asa.boholm@cefos.gu.se

Session 12: Risk as media event

Part I
Monday, September 8, 2008, 09:00-11:00

Part II
Monday, September 8, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Jenny Kitzinger, University Cardiff, UK, kitzingerj@cardiff.ac.uk

Session 13: Biographical coping with risk and uncertainty

Part I
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30

Part II
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
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 14: The everyday management of risk

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Tom Horlick-Jones, Cardiff, UK, horlick-jonest@Cardiff.ac.uk

 

Session 15: The everyday management of risk and edgework

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: : Stephen Lyng, slyng@carthage.edu, Carthage College, USA

Session 16: Sociology of risk and uncertainty and public debate

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent, UK, p.f.taylor-gooby@kent.ac.uk