Risk doesn't exist: visions and practices of random apropriation
Risk doesn't exist: visions and practices of random apropriation
Project of bibliographic research and building-up of debate forum, focused on the concentration, availability and analyse of empiric and theoretical studies related to the social appropriations of aleatoriness, uncertainty and threats in different social and cultural contexts. Dealing with those materials, a particular reflection will be made about their rapports with the probabilistic concept of "risk", and about the relationship between this concept and the societies where it is hegemonic.
Estatuto:
Proponent entity
Financed:
No
Keywords:
Risco, Perigo, Tecno-Ciência, Mutação Cultural
Project of bibliographic research and building-up of debate forum, focused on the concentration, availability and analyse of empiric and theoretical studies related to the social appropriations of aleatoriness, uncertainty and threats in different social and cultural contexts. Dealing with those materials, a particular reflection will be made about their rapports with the probabilistic concept of "risk", and about the relationship between this concept and the societies where it is hegemonic.
Objectivos:
1) To survey, collect and make available the studies of social science focused in (or dealing with) the social appropriations of aleatoriness, uncertainty and threats;<br />2) to analyze those studies from a critic perspective, in theoretical and epistemological terms;<br />3) to use those materials as empiric and theoretical data for the debate about the perverse effects of the "risk" concept and rhetoric;<br />4) to create a digital platform which might became a reflection and debate forum about those subjects worldwide, besides making available the productions of the participants;<br />5) to divulgate the results in a perspective both theoretical and of intervention on the practical and decisional approaches to collective dangers, with or without technological origin.
State of the art:
O projecto assume que o conceito probabilístico de "risco" constitui um forma particular - social e culturalmente situada - de domesticação do aleatório, da incerteza e da ameaça. <br />Assume também que o conceito probabilístico de "risco" deve, em grande medida, o papel hegemónico que ocupa nas sociedades de matriz "ocidental" ao facto de se constituir num instrumento de poder e legitimação, nas relações entre a tecno-ciência e a sociedade. <br />Assume ainda que, mais do que controlar as ameaças, esse conceito e a sua operaconalização provocam efeitos de sentido apaziguadores e de legitimação técnica das opções individuais, colectivas e políticas acerca de perigos. <br />O projecto propõe-se verificar, por fim, se da introdução do conceito probabilístico de "risco" em contextos a que este é extrínseco resulta, ou não, uma interacção com formas "autóctones" de domesticação da ameaça, e uma utilização contextual dos vários conceitos localmente disponíveis, num quadro de mutação cultural com características sincréticas e selectivas.
Coordenador ICS
Start Date:
01/12/2003
End Date:
01/12/2012
Duração:
108 meses
Closed
