MID-TERM CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY NETWORKS IN ESA (RN22) AND ISA (TG04)

MULTIDIMENSIONAL RISKS IN THE XXI CENTURY With a special stream on the Metropolis and the role of safety, security and uncertainty in the growing Mega-Cities.

Risk and uncertainty are defining features of current political and media discourses and of a wider cultural Zeitgeist. Amid processes of reflexive modernisation where existing categories and beliefs are called into question, the need for new categories, analytical frameworks and ideas for studying how risk and uncertainty are interwoven within everyday life has become increasingly apparent, more so during the Covid-19 pandemic. Processes of globalization that have constantly given rise to new forms of risk and contributed to changing strategies of intervention by the state and other actors have been challenged in a way that would have been deemed unconceivable only a few months before. This has brought to light a systemic inner fragility that Modernity thought to have overcome and forced many leaders and thinkers to invoke a radical change in the face of an unknown future. All that was thought of as solid and long-lasting seems to ‘melt into air’, as Marx once put it. This conference welcomes contributions on the analysis of uncertainty and risk or, moreover, regarding the communication of uncertainty and risk.

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