Risk Books

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1. Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events

   Edited by Colin Bennett, Kevin Haggerty

   Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events: Security Games addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "nothing...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60262-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Globalization in Crisis

   Edited by Barry Gills

   This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate. Written by some of the world’s leading international...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60048-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance: A Foucauldian Critique

   By Antoinette Rouvroy

   Original and interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore the relationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the so-called genetic revolution. Looking at the knowledge-power relations in the post-genomic era and addressing the pressing issues of genetic privacy and...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-57447-1 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Young People and Sexual Exploitation: 'It's Not Hidden, You Just Aren't Looking'

   By Jenny J. Pearce

   Work with sexually exploited young people can be rewarding yet difficult. They can be hard to access, often presenting challenging behaviour. Sometimes it is painful to hear their life stories, whether these include abuse through the Internet or exploitation experienced through having been...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-40716-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life

   By Iain Wilkinson

   It is now sociological common sense to declare that, in everyday life, large numbers of people approach matters of work, family life, trust and friendship with 'risk' constantly in mind. This book, provides an introductory overview and critical assessment of this phenomenon. Iain Wilkinson outlines...

   July 2009 | 978-0-415-37080-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Risk and the Law

   Edited by Gordon Woodman, Diethelm Klippel

   Natural and man-made risks have long been recognised as vital conditioning factors in the formation of social institutions and the conduct of social life. In this volume internationally recognised experts examine in detail the implications in practice of the modern concept of risk in particular...

   2008 | 978-0-415-47149-7 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology of Virulence

   By Joost Van Loon

   The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories of risk from Ulrich Becks foundational work to that of his contemporaries such as Anthony Giddens...

   2002 | 978-0-415-22901-2 | Paperback (Routledge)