Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases

ISBN-13: 9780226257105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str.

Paul Rabinow; Limor Samimian-Darash

Opis

"Modes of Uncertainty "offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Our world, the contributors show, is increasingly populated by forms, practices, and events whose uncertainty cannot be reduced to riskand thus it is vital to distinguish between the two. Drawing the lines between them, they argue that the study of uncertainty should not focus solely on the appearance of new risks and dangerswhich no doubt aboundbut also on how uncertainty itself should be defined, and what the implications might be for policy and government.
Organizing contributions from various anthropological subfieldsincluding economics, business, security, humanitarianism, health, and environmentLimor Samimian-Darash and Paul Rabinow offer new tools with which to consider uncertainty, its management, and the differing modes of subjectivity appropriate to it. Taking up policies and experiences as objects of research and analysis, the essays here seek a rigorous inquiry into a sound conceptualization of uncertainty in order to better confront contemporary problems. Ultimately, they open the way for a participatory anthropology that asks crucial questions about our contemporary state.
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