Responding to the undesired. state responsibility, risk management and precaution

Werner, W.G.

doi:10.1017/s0167676805000577

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“…The problem with the risk society thesis is that it fails to acknowledge that the identification of risk is not the same as recognizing the uncertainty of future events (Luhmann, 1991). 4 On the contrary, the identification and management of risk is a way of organizing reality, disciplining the future, taming chance and rationalizing individual conduct (Werner, 2005). Hence, 'reflexivity' in the sense of social awareness of risks has been a constant characteristic of governmental processes.…”

Section: Security Studies: Living In the Risk Societymentioning

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Governing Terrorism Through Risk: Taking Precautions, (un)Knowing the Future

Aradau

Munster

2007

European Journal of International Relations

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Abstract9/11 appeared to make good on Ulrich Beck's claim that we are now living in a (global) risk society. Examining what it means to 'govern through risk', this article departs from Beck's thesis of risk society and its appropriation in security studies. Arguing that the risk society thesis problematically views risk within a macro-sociological narrative of modernity, this paper shows, based on a Foucauldian account of governmentality, that governing terrorism through risk involves a permanent adjustment of traditional forms of risk management in light of the double infinity of catastrophic consequences and the incalculability of the risk of terrorism. Deploying the Foucauldian notion of 'dispositif', this article explores precautionary risk and risk analysis as conceptual tools that can shed light on the heterogeneous practices that are defined as the 'war on terror'.

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Section: Security Studies: Living In the Risk Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing Terrorism Through Risk: Taking Precautions, (un)Knowing the Future

Aradau

Munster

2007

European Journal of International Relations

510

330

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“…This is considered to be of consequence for the regulatory bodies installed for risk control. These have historically evolved around occurrences of the kind of risks that, although they may strike individuals unexpectedly, happen sufficiently predictably and regularly to be insurable (Giddens, 1999, p. 4;Werner, 2005) and thus manageable. With unpredictability and uncertainty as key assets of the new types of risks, standing risk management institutions are bound to be inaptly equipped to deal with them.…”

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The Food Chain Reforged: Novel Food Risk Arrangements and the Metamorphosis of a Metaphor

Loeber

2011

Science as Culture

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In the past decade, an entirely new regulatory framework for food safety control has emerged in Europe. Characteristic of the new institutional arrangements is the 'farm-to-fork' managerial perspective as a basis for risk management. The latter perspective is a genuine institutional innovation, cutting across long-standing borders between the traditionally separate regulatory domains of agriculture and public health. How can we understand the design of this new institutional setting? Answers formulated from a realist perspective that focus on assumed ontologically novel characteristics of 'new' risks fall short of explaining why and how the framework developed in the final decade of the twentieth century. A perspective that builds on the idiom of co-production sheds a light on the co-evolving processes of meaning-making over food risks, in particular regarding BSE, and food risk control. The eventual design can be understood as efforts to gain control of food risks under conditions of institutional ambiguity through a discursive reforging of the food chain metaphor. It was reshaped into a horizontally defined chain which runs from 'farm to fork'. In the resulting framework, food risks can be defined at the level of the production chain in addition to the individual product, which broadens the range of potential strategies for dealing with the newly framed food risks.

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“…Internationalization of the problem places heavy demands on the ability to harmonize European and national law in particular (cf. Werner 2005). Ultimately, then, requirements that have developed gradually will have to be ratified by politics through codification in legislation and regulation.…”

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Uncertain Safety : Allocating Responsibilities for Safety

Regeringsbele¹

2009

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Responding to the undesired. state responsibility, risk management and precaution

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Governing Terrorism Through Risk: Taking Precautions, (un)Knowing the Future

Governing Terrorism Through Risk: Taking Precautions, (un)Knowing the Future

The Food Chain Reforged: Novel Food Risk Arrangements and the Metamorphosis of a Metaphor

Uncertain Safety : Allocating Responsibilities for Safety

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