Risk, Culture and Uncertainty

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Risk, Culture and Uncertainty

Original language description

The concept of risk refers to many phenomena and encompasses a multitude of uncertainties. From floods to fires, from obesity to lung cancer, from the threat of terrorist attacks to the outbreak of wars, the risks are displayed at several levels: natural, social, financial, industrial, technological, and chemical, among others. Social anthropologists who have taken an interest in the field of risks usually assume that culture is crucial to risk perception. Moreover, we could say that uncertainty is a fundamental dimension of risk and without uncertainty there is no risk. In this presentation, I would like to discuss the links between the notions of risk, culture and uncertainty, and how they can be theorized from an anthropological perspective. To do so, I will present an analytical perspective on risk as referring to a domain of uncertainty about values and assets.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

W - Workshop organization

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50400 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Praha

Event country

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Event starting date

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Event ending date

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Total number of attendees

19

Foreign attendee count

1

Type of event by attendee nationality

EUR - Evropská akce