Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
 Introduction  (Jens O. Zinn, Anna Olofsson)....Pages 1-28
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 Seeing Risk and Risking Seeing: Studying Audiences in Participatory Visual Research  (Claudia Mitchell)....Pages 31-51
 Key Points of Interactive Research: An Ethnographic Approach to Risk  (Roanne van Voorst, Dorothea Hilhorst)....Pages 53-76
 Virtual Ethnography: Managing Pharmacological Risk and Uncertainty in Online Drug Forums  (Moritz Berning, Anita Hardon)....Pages 77-101
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 The Domestic Cycle Approach as Methodological Strategy in Risk Research  (Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez)....Pages 105-127
 Investigating Risk: Methodological Insights from Interpretive Social Science and Sustainable Energy Transitions Research  (Karen Henwood)....Pages 129-152
 The Problem-Centred Approach for Researching Biographical Uncertainty and Risk  (Herwig Reiter)....Pages 153-180
 Using Repeat Interviewing and Diaries to Research the Impact of Life-Threatening Events: The Example of Stroke Survivors’ Narratives  (Andy Alaszewski)....Pages 181-204
 Interviews as a Means of Exploring Risk Lifeworlds: Excavating the Roots of Everyday Meanings, Experiences and Practices  (Patrick Brown, Gerben Moerman, Christian Bröer)....Pages 205-230
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 International Comparative Surveys in Risk Perception Research: Data Sets, Construction of Questionnaires, and Analytical Dimensions  (Aistė Balžekienė)....Pages 233-263
 Quantitative Analysis of Risk Positions: An Exploratory Approach  (Susanna Öhman, Anna Olofsson)....Pages 265-286
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 Tracing Discourses and Uncovering the ‘Performativity’ of Risk: Exploring the Role of Discourse Analysis in Studies of Risk and Inequality  (Katarina Giritli Nygren)....Pages 289-307
 Investigating Risk, Uncertainty and Normativity Within the Framework of Digital Discourse Analysis: Renewable Energies in Climate Change Discourse  (Marcus Müller, Jörn Stegmeier)....Pages 309-335
 Utilising Corpus Linguistic Tools for Analysing Social Change in Risk  (Jens O. Zinn)....Pages 337-366
 Concluding Thoughts and Perspectives for Interdisciplinary Risk Research  (Jens O. Zinn, Anna Olofsson)....Pages 367-375
Back Matter ....Pages 377-384