Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty, Portugal, 2-5 September

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Research Network "Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty" of European Sociological Association organizes sessions at 9th ESA Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, 2-5 September 2009

The topic of the 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association is European Society or European Societies? The event aims to explore whether we can look at European society as an increasingly cohesive entity or whether divisions of nation, class, ethnicity, region, gender and so on continue to be more salient.

These issues are particularly important for the experiences and management of risk and uncertainty, whether it is about the responses and management of terrorism, climate change, the life course, intimate relationships, or health and illness. We would like to discuss such issues in national as well as in comparative perspective. However, the session stream is also a place to explore recent developments in theorizing and research on risk and uncertainty.

For this conference we would like to group sessions around specific risks (such as terror, death, intimate relationship) rather than specific approaches or areas (such as health and illness, media, crime). The idea is to create sessions which produce comprehensive overviews about a specific topic rather than a specific approach to improve our understanding of the regulation, perception and responses to specific risk issues such as terrorism, nuclear
power or welfare. Therefore the list of topics listed below is still open:

Terrorism, International Terror
War, Security and Combat
Climate Change
Nuclear Power/Technological risks
Genetically Modified Food/Biotechnologies
Financial Crises
Internet/ICT
High Risk Organisations - Safety Culture
Hospitals & Health Service
Inequality in Health and Illness
HIV/Aids
Food Safety
Vaccination
Death and Dying
Surveillance
Probation / Rehabilitation
Pathways into and out of Crime
Mental Health
The Life Course
Youth Transitions
Retirement / Pensions
Work
Intimate Relationships
Welfare State
Globalisation
Migration
Capitalism/Liberalism
Methodologies of Risk Research
Theorizing Risk Different Approaches