The politics of risks: justice, discourses and contexts in risk assessment

The politics of risks: justice, discourses and contexts in risk assessment

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

Réseau

Sciences sociales

risque

adaptation

résilience

politique

I want to enhance a social and political geography of risks and the environment. Therefore, I will present a politicized and contextualized approach of risk issues I wish I could implement in next fieldworks. “Politicized”, because of the power relations and the socially rooted causes I want to highlight. “Contextualized”, because of the relations that must be assessed within socio-ecological systems (both social and biophysical), over time and across scales. Such encompassing framework stems from a personal research training process, still ongoing process, which is familiar to French-speaking, Latin-American and North-American literature on risks, and particularly on risks as social constructions. This framework allows addressing socially and politically oriented challenges related with a transformed environment, the “second nature”, a “humanized nature”, without ignoring the “first nature” and the necessity of biophysical laws.

Rebotier, Julien

RED SOBRE RIESGOY VULNERABILIDAD: ESTRATEGIAS SOCIALES DE PREVENCIÓN Y ADAPTACIÓN

2011-02-14

ENG

conference, seminar, workshop communication

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00568209

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/56/82/09/PDF/Rebotier_Mexico.pdf

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/56/82/09/PDF/Rebotier_Politics_of_risks_.pdf

Mexico - Mérida

Mexico