Framework of Intersectional Risk Theory in the Age of Ambivalence

Katarina Giritli Nygren is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Forum for Gender Studies, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.Anna Olofsson is Professor of Sociology at Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.  Susanna Öhman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

• 1. The Age of Ambivalence.- 2. Conceptual Frames: Risk and Intersectionality.- 3. Risk, Inequality, and (Post) Structure: Risks as Governing.- 4. The Performative Aspects of Risk and the Constitution of Subjects.- 5. Doing, Redoing, and Doing Away: Performing Risk.- 6. The Lived Experience of Risk: Multiple Standpoints and Agencies.- 7. Risk Networks: Actors, Actants, and Assemblages.- 8. Methodological Applications.- 9. Risk, Intersectionality, and Ambivalence—A Way to Understand Inequality.- Epilogue: Imagining the Future Differently.