1st Edition
Theories of Uncertainty and Risk across Different Modernities
1. Theorising uncertainty and risk across different modernities: considering insights from ‘non-North-Western’ studies Patrick Brown
2. Engaging with risk in non-Western settings: an editorial Nicola Desmond
3. Anthropology and risk: insights into uncertainty, danger and blame from other cultures – A review essay Andy Alaszewski
4. Faith and uncertainty: migrants’ journeys between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore Loïs Bastide
5. Applying the risk society thesis within the context of flood risk and poverty in Jakarta, Indonesia Roanne Van Voorst
6. Coping with health-related uncertainties and risks in Rakhine (Myanmar) Celine Coderey
7. Performing prevention: risk, responsibility, and reorganising the future in Japan during the H1N1 pandemic Mari J. Armstrong-Hough
8. Purity and danger: shamans, diviners and the control of danger in premodern Japan as evidenced by the healing rites of the Aogashima islanders Jane Alaszewska and Andy Alaszewski
Biography
Patrick Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is Deputy Editor of Health, Risk & Society and has published widely on topics of trust, hope, risk and related ways in which organisations, groups and individuals handle uncertainty.
