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..., agricultural industries, and a nuclear power plant. The essay offers methodological reflections for the study of this socio-spatial formation, paying particular attention to how race becomes material through uneven exposure to hazard and to collaborative knowledge production with movements for environmental...

... in coastal Fukushima, the article shows how social science is a critical stakeholder in addressing the surreal to mediate between science and the lay public, the state and citizen, and risk and life to prevent the individuation of risk perceptions that follow with the emergence of invisible hazards...

... By the mid-twentieth century, such Next Emergency risk management had taken on a relatively stable form in the West in the various forms of collective security provision associated with the welfare state. Develop- ments in science and technology — such as food production or industrial hazard mitigation...

... is not indicated, nor is there any reference to the hundreds of thousands of years during which the submerged radioactive materials will remain hazardous. The Faultless “event” resulted in the collapse of a large block of earth. Evi...

... are found throughout the urban periphery, where threats of crime and violence intermingle with hazards like landslides and floods. Bogotá’s highly uneven landscape of insecurity, both human and environmental, is the product of twentieth-century urban development patterns. Between 1950 and 2000...

... the event in a longer-running discussion of public responses to uncertain hazards. In circumstances of protracted crisis, when the clarity of saving lives from immediate danger recedes from its central place in humanitarian practice, what should the purpose of intervention be? In “Looking...

... studies in the Depart- ment of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society (1997) and Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish...

... , and Guggenheim Michael . 2017 . “ From Preparedness to Risk: From the Singular Risk of Nuclear War to the Plurality of All Hazards .” British Journal of Sociology 69 , no. 3 : 799 – 824 . Edelman Lee . 2004 . No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham, NC : Duke University Press...

... in the U.S. nuclear economy—to replace the status quo logics of “national security” with an ethical investment in a nonnuclear future. The billboard campaign has also, at times, appealed directly to residents’ fear of nuclear hazards. In 2002...

..., have powerful implications for health, security, well-being, and justice. Reflecting on the similarities between the pandemic and the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima, Ryo Morimoto explores the tensions between the state, science, and the lived experience of invisible hazards...

... with an essay by Howard S. Becker, who asks the simple but tantalizingly difficult question, How much is enough? Becker begins with questions about preparing for future weather-related hazards. Today, in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy and with the emergence of a new, more dangerous climate, it’s tempting...

... of post­ colonial India; Jean Comaroff on the hazards of applying Agamben and his notion of bare life to the politics of HIV/AIDS; Carlos Forment examines the relation- ship between football clubs and the 2003 municipal elections in Buenos Aires; Lisa Wedeen examines qa¯t chew gatherings as a form...

... Cannon Terry Davis Ian Wisner Ben . 1994 . At Risk: Natural Hazards, People’s Vulnerability, and Disasters . New York : Routledge . Brottem Leif Brooks Bonnie . 2018 . “ Crops and Livestock under the Sun: Obstacles to Rural Livelihood Adaptations...

... within invocations of the right to life in environmental case law, as when the Supreme Court declared in 2000 that “any disturbance of the basic environmental elements, namely, air, water and soil, which are necessary for ‘life,’ would be hazardous to ‘life’ within the meaning of Article 21...

...: Wilhelm Hueper, Post–World War II Epidemiology, and the Vanishing Clinician's Eye .” American Journal of Public Health 87 , no. 11 : 1824 – 35 . Sellers Christopher C. 1997b . Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science . Chapel Hill : University...

... Magazine 8 , no. 3 : 23 – 29 . Kopp Carolyn . 1979 . “ The Origins of the American Scientific Debate over Fallout Hazards .” Social Studies of Science 9 , no. 3 : 403 – 42 . Langston Nancy . 2010 . Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES . New Haven, CT...

..., and it transcends all other issues.27 The claim that universal risks — ­especially environmental ones — ­transcend conflicts of national, religious, and class interest is now part of mainstream political sociology. The paradigmatic “supra-­national and non-­class-­specificglobal hazards” that Ulrich Beck...

... seriously. This is why suicide has accompanied 18. Stephen Young, “The ‘Moral Hazards’ of Microfinance: Restructuring Rural Credit in India,” Antipode 42, no. 1 (2010): 201 – 23. 19. Polgreen and Bajaj, “India Microcredit.” 137...

...—such as exposure to radiation or toxic chemicals—differ from the hazards that afflicted early industrial society in that they are insidious, perhaps waiting for years to appear; their scale is not easily bounded; and their probability of occurrence is difficult or impossible to calculate. The second process...

... altered. Caravan-of-the-mutilated testimonies illustrate how the life of the Honduran migrant is a wager against asymmetrical odds. José Ifrain Vasquez's testimonio describes the migrant trail's many hazards: “When we pass through Mexico, we, as migrants, suffer excessively. In reality, crossing...