Trust, Risk and Uncertainty

STUART ALLAN Reader, School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, UKALISON ANDERSON Principal Lecturer in Sociology, University of Plymouth, UKALISON ASSITER Professor of Feminist Theory and Assistant Vice Chancellor, University of the West of England, UKARTHUR BAXTER Principal Lecturer in Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of the West of England, UKTONY BOVAIRD Professor of Strategy and Public Service Management, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UKCAROLYN BRITTON Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of the west of England, UKLITA CROCIANI-WINDLAND Part-time Lecturer and Research Student, University of the West of England, UKHARRY FERGUSON Professor of Social Work, University of the West of England, UKDAVID GREEN Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of the West of England, UKPAUL HOGGETT Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Psycho- Social Studies, University of the West of England, UKPETER JOWERS Senior Lecturer in Politics, Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of the West of England, UKELKE LOEFFLER Chief Executive of Governance International, UKAJIT NAYAK Senior Lecturer in Strategy and International Business, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UKALAN PETERSEN Professor of Sociology of Health and Illness, School of Sociology, Politics and Law, University of Plymouth, UKSIMON THOMPSON Senior Lecturer in Politics, Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of the West of England, UKLEAH WILD teaches sociology at the University of the West of England and the University of Bath, UK

• Introduction; S.Watson & A.Moran PART ONE: THE THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF TRUST, RISK AND UNCERTAINTY Radical Uncertainty: Human Emotion and Ethical Dilemmas; P.Hoggett Trust, Risk and Identity; S.Thompson Risk, Sensibility, Ethics and Justice in the Later Levinas; P.Jowers Moral Uncertainty, Feminism and Descartes' Demon; A.Assiter PART TWO: TRUST, RISK AND UNCERTAINTY IN INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS Trust, Risk and Expert Systems: Child Protection, Modernity and the (changing) Management of Life and Death; H.Ferguson 'They Kind of Think I'm Better Than They Are': Risk, Identity and Change in the Lives of Mature Students in Higher Education; A.Baxter & C.Britton Managing Uncertainty and Subjectivity; A.Nayak Communities, Trust and Organisational Responses to Local Governance Failure; T.Bovaird & E.Loeffler PART THREE: CULTURES OF RISK, THE UNCERTAINTIES OF TRUST Reporting Risk: Science, Journalism and the Prospect of Human Cloning; S.Allan, A.Anderson & A.Petersen Transgressive Terrain: Risk, Otherness and 'New Age' Nomadism; L.Wild Trusting Aggression: The Siennese War Machine as Social Capital; L.Crociani-Windland Trust and Uncertainty in a Settler Society: Relations Between Settlers and Aborigines in Australia; A.Moran Pan's People ? Pagan Magic, Uncertainty, and Embodied Desire; D.Green