Trust, Risk and Uncertainty

SEAN WATSON is Principal Lecturer and Head of the School of Sociology at the University of the West of England, UK. His published work is in the area of social theory, continental philosophy and the sociology of affect and emotion. ANTHONY MORAN is an ARC Research Fellow in the Politics Programme, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia.

• 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