Urban Riskscapes—Social and Spatial Dimensions of Risk in Urban Infrastructure Settings

Neisser, Florian; Müller‐Mahn, Detlef

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68606-6_20

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“…In this article we use the concept of riskscapes to examine perspectives on interconnected and overlapping risks, identified in one geographic area. The concept of riskscapes ‘connects perspectives on risk, space and practice’ (Neisser & Müller-Mahn, 2018, p. 197). Drawing on the insights of risk theorists working at an intersection between human geography, anthropology and sociology who conceptualised the social science perspective of riskscapes, we agree that the spatial dimensions of risk are important.…”

Section: Conceptualising Riskscapes For Tb In Pngmentioning

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“…Sylvia’s perspective, which reflects on the spatial (environmental) and social dimensions of risk, speaks to the essence of ‘riskscapes’ (Müller-Mahn & Everts, 2013). The concept of riskscapes, underpinned by a ‘context-sensitive, practice-oriented and socio-spatial understanding of risks’, has become an important framework for in-depth exploration of complex risk contexts (Neisser & Müller-Mahn, 2018, p. 356), such as the one identified in South Fly District. This approach allows closer examination of the contexts in which the bacteria that causes TB spreads and the disease develops and to inform and guide contextualised and local public health responses.…”

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Exploring Tuberculosis Riskscapes in a Papua New Guinean ‘Hotspot’

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This article explores socio-spatial dimensions of risk and how they can enhance understanding of a high burden tuberculosis (TB) context in the South Fly District of Papua New Guinea. We report on select findings from a qualitative study that included 128 semi-structured in-depth interviews and 10 focus group discussions with a wide range of South Fly District community members. Using the conceptual framework of ‘riskscapes’ to examine emic perspectives on risk, space and practice, we map key elements of TB riskscapes on Daru Island, South Fly District, along with solutions for navigating through these riskscapes. Overcrowding, lack of water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as food insecurity and undernutrition, were identified as common elements within participants’ riskscapes, that compounded upon each other to create the perception of an assemblage of risk favourable to TB transmission.

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Section: Conceptualising Riskscapes For Tb In Pngmentioning

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Exploring Tuberculosis Riskscapes in a Papua New Guinean ‘Hotspot’

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“…We largely agree with Ranganathan’s approach but also advocate for more engagement and synthesis with the oft-neglected field of disaster studies, which has a lot to offer – and learn from – these debates. Such a synthesis is well placed to unpick how these relations and interactions emerge in situated socio-material assemblages (McFarlane, 2011; Neisser and Müller-Mahn, 2018). Such interactions are conceptualised as acting not across hierarchical scales but rather between sited assemblages where power is differentially distributed across scales as outcomes or effects of these interactions (Agrawal, 1995; Escobar, 2001; Legg, 2009).…”

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Assemblage theory and disaster risk management

McGowran

Donovan

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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This article builds on previous work that has sought to link assemblage theory with the study of disaster risk. Specifically, we propose that the existing idea of a ‘disaster risk management assemblage’ can be used in two ways. The first is an overall approach to analysing disaster risk. The second is to conceptualise disaster risk management assemblages as objects of study. These are the assemblages, or apparatuses, that seek to manage – but also create – disasters-in-the-making. We go on to explore how these ideas can be used in empirical research and how they can help us to imagine doing research differently.

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“…Using the concept of riskscapes highlights the social, temporal and spatial texture of risk ( Neisser and Müller-Mahn, 2018 ) and calls attention to interactions among risks and their “cumulative impact” across several dimensions of human life and the biophysical environment ( Renn, 2008 ; Solomon et al, 2016 ). Entire nations—concentrated in the Global South—are at heightened risk of repeated cycles of war ( Collier, 2008 ).…”

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“…The origins of these risks and the forces that sustain them often operate on and across multiple spatial scales—from the local to the global. By studying climate change and riskscapes, it becomes possible to understand the “interdependencies and spillovers between risk clusters” ( Renn, 2008 , 5; see also Beck, 2009 ; Neisser and Müller-Mahn, 2018 ).…”

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Riskscapes and the socio-spatial challenges of climate change

Davies

Hooks

Knox‐Hayes

et al. 2020

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

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Anthropogenic climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of the physical threats to human and planetary wellbeing. However, climate change risks, and their interaction with other “riskscapes”, remain understudied. Riskscapes encompass different viewpoints on the threat of loss across space, time, individuals and collectives. This Special Issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society enhances our understanding of the multifaceted and interlocking dimensions of climate change and riskscapes. It brings together rigorous and critical international scholarship across diverse realms on inquiry under two, interlinked, themes: (i) governance and institutional responses and (ii) vulnerabilities and inequalities. The contributors offer a forceful reminder that when considering climate change, social justice principles cannot be appended after the fact. Climate change adaptation and mitigation pose complex and interdependent social and ethical dilemmas that will need to be explicitly confronted in any activation of “Green New Deal” strategies currently being developed internationally. Such critical insights about the layered, unequal and institutional dimensions of risks are of paramount import when considering other riskscapes pertaining to conflict and war, displaced people and pandemics like the 2019–2020 global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Urban Riskscapes—Social and Spatial Dimensions of Risk in Urban Infrastructure Settings

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

Exploring Tuberculosis Riskscapes in a Papua New Guinean ‘Hotspot’

Exploring Tuberculosis Riskscapes in a Papua New Guinean ‘Hotspot’

Assemblage theory and disaster risk management

Riskscapes and the socio-spatial challenges of climate change

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