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Risk, Uncertainty and Government
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Risk, Uncertainty and Government

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-10
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Both risk and uncertainty are neo-liberal concepts, which can be viewed as complementary techniques for governing diverse aspects of life, rather than natural states of things. This new book examines the way these constructs govern the production of wealth through 'uncertain' speculation and 'calculable' investment formulae. The way in which risk and uncertainty govern the minimisation of harms through insurance and through the uncertain practices of 'reasonable foresight' is discussed, and O Malley looks at the way these same techniques were historically forged out of moral and social beliefs about how to govern properly. In addition, the book analyzes is how, during this process, ideas such as 'contract' and distinctions between insurance and gambling were invented to order to 'properly' govern the risky and uncertain future.

Governing Risks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 615

Governing Risks

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Contemporary law and government are increasingly characterized by a focus on risk. Fields such as health, psychiatry, criminal justice, vehicle safety, urban design and environmental governance all provide examples of settings in which problems are dealt with as risks. While risk has become more prominent, there have also been changes in the nature of risk techniques deployed. Whereas welfare states provided many services through socialized risk - such as social insurances covering health, employment and old age - increasing emphasis is now placed on individual risk management arrangements such as private insurance. In this environment, the positive side of risk has also been made more salient. Enterprise, innovation and risk-taking have become qualities valued, or even required, of current governance. In this volume, the most influential examinations and interpretations of this major trend have been brought together, in order to make clear the range and diversity, the spread and penetration of risk in contemporary societies.

The Currency of Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

The Currency of Justice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-02-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Currency of Justice examines the broad implications of the ‘monetization of justice’ as more and more of life is regulated through this single medium. Money not only links together legal sanctions, but links legal sanctions to the much broader array of techniques for governing everyday life.

Gendered Risks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 469

Gendered Risks

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-11-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Edited and contributed to by a collection of eminent international scholars in the field, this is the first book to explore the gendered aspects of risk. It analyzes what is currently known and identifies some of the new directions and challenges for research and theory that emerge from thinking of risk as a governmental technique; as a form of consciousness and action and as a political issue, shaped by, and shaping gender in contemporary society.

LIFE
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116

LIFE

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1940-05-06
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  • Publisher: Unknown

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Getting Grief Right
  • Language: en

Getting Grief Right

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-01
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  • Publisher: Sounds True

When the New York Times ran Patrick O’Malley’s story about the loss of his infant son—and how his inability to “move on” challenged everything he was taught as a psychotherapist—it inspired an unprecedented flood of gratitude from readers. What he shared was a truth that many have felt but rarely acknowledged by the professionals they turn to: that our grief is not a mental illness to be cured, but part of the abiding connection with the one we’ve lost. Illuminated by O’Malley’s own story and those of many clients that he’s supported, readers learn how the familiar “stages of grief” too often mislabel our sorrow as a disorder, press us to “get over it,” and amplif...

Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 16

Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture

It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and narrative structures of the Gothic, with its lurid and supernatural plots, were used to argue that both Catholicism and sexual difference were fundamentally alien and threatening to British Protestant culture. Ultimately, however, the Gothic also provided an imaginative space in which unconventional writers from John Henry Newman to Oscar Wilde could articulate an alternative vision of British culture. Patrick O'Malley charts these developments from the origins of the Gothic novel in the mid-eighteenth century, through the mid-nineteenth-century sensation novel, toward the end of the Victorian Gothic in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. O'Malley foregrounds the continuing importance of Victorian Gothic as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it.

Liffey and Lethe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Liffey and Lethe

Patrick R. O'Malley explores two competing modes of political historiography that emerge within Irish literature and culture: one that eludes the unresolved wounds of Ireland's violent history, and one that locates its roots in an account of colonial and specifically sectarian bloodshed and insists upon the moral necessity of naming that history.

Dangerous Offenders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Dangerous Offenders

The papers in this collection discuss how the dangerous offender has become a figure of collective anxiety for the citizens of rationalized Western societies, why sexual and violent offences seem so ubiquitous, and how we should protect ourselves.

The Critical Criminology Companion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

The Critical Criminology Companion

  • Categories: Law

This book brings together the major Australian and New Zealand theorists in Critical Criminology. The chapters represent the contribution of these authors in both their established work and their recent scholarship. It includes new approaches to theory, methodology, case studies and contemporary issues.