Adam Burgess
Biographic Data
| ID | 6089435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Burgess |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Burgess |
| SIGNATURE | BURGESS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading; 56 Newton Road, Faversham, Kent ME13 8DZ, UK. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The development of risk politics in the UK
Thirty years on from the dramatic and unprecedented AIDS advertising campaign in the UK organised by the Conservative government of the late 1980s, this article reassesses the experience drawing upon subsequent memoirs and interviews. It does so in the context of an emergence of risk politics in the UK in the 1980s, situated within an historical perspective on the development of risk within modernity. I emphasise the forgotten pragmatic, amoral c…
Routledge Handbook of Risk Studies
In Germany debates about risk developed along different lines from those in many other countries. In the US, Ron Johnston noted as early as 1980 that working on risk issues was ‘big business’ (1980: 105) and, in the same year, the Society of Risk Analysis was founded which produces the well-known international journal, Risk Analysis. At this time, in Germany, similar research was less well developed; however, technical-oriented risk research, in …
Constructing sexual risk
Women-only train carriages have been introduced in Japan as a response to widespread groping (chikan) by men. In August 2007, 155 young women completed a survey at a variety of locations in central Tokyo, mainly at the popular meeting places, Shinjuku and Shibuya. The survey involved face-to-face interviews conducted mainly by young female interviewers. The numbers involved are insufficient for rigorous statistical analysis and in this pilot stud…
Scared to death. From BSE to global warming
‘Passive Drinking’
This article reflects on UK Chief Medical Officer's (CMO) 2009 announcement that alcohol abuse should be understood as a problem of ‘passive drinking’. This was an attempt to instrumentally problematise drinking drawing on the successful campaign against ‘passive smoking’. An implausible term that originated as an anti-state interventionist joke, both ‘passive drinking's’ lack of impact but also the lack of criticism its revelation attracted are …
Revisiting the BSE experience
The Politics of BSE, R. Packer, London, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 320, £50, (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-1403985293. What's the Beef?: The Contested Governance of European Food Safety, edited by Christopher K. Ansell and David Vogel, Massachusetts, MIT Press, pp. 397, £17.95 (pbk) ISBN 13: 978-0262511926. This review essay on risk, politics and food focuses particularly on an important new insider account of how the BSE crisis was managed by one of the main …
Risk, time and reason
Over time, a number of alternative approaches to risk have developed and, while these co-exist, they structure time in different ways and are grounded in different combinations of cognitive rationality and affect. The initial conceptualization of risk, which remains prominent, was based on the use of knowledge from past events to provide the context for choices which minimize harm in the future. It underpins structured approaches to decision maki…
Real and phantom risks at the petrol station
This case study examines the alleged hazard associated with mobile phone use at petrol stations and suggests that it is a phantom risk. Understanding its persistence in the absence of evidence, a number of factors are outlined. A precautionary safety regime enforced by oil companies in the UK established a restriction on mobile use on station forecourts that had the effect of confirming a danger. Warning signs in mobile phone handbooks had a simi…
The making of the risk-centred society and the limits of social risk research
Despite the apparent triumph of social perspectives on risk, the predominant approach to risk is less social and contextual than is often supposed. A widespread acceptance of a constructionist approach is more formal than substantive. Risk ‘objects’ and events remain given and objectified in many accounts, at the same time as they have been subject to little critical empirical enquiry. Iconic risk events such as the BSE crisis and Chernobyl have …
Téléphones portables et stations-service
Comparing national responses to perceived health risks from mobile phone masts
This article concerns responses to health risk concerns about electromagnetic emissions \nfrom mobile phone masts. The article draws particular attention to the differential patterns of state \nresponse in the UK, USA, Italy, Ireland and Australia. It concludes that precautionary government \nresponses have played a role in the ‘social construction’ of risk perceptions
Flattering Consumption
This article argues that the unprecedented prominence of consumer groups in contemporary Europe is not the product of a ‘bottom up' process driven by newly demanding consumers. Drawing particularly upon the examples of the UK and the EU, it is argued that the politicization of ‘the consumer' in Europe has come from above. The creation of the ‘citizen consumer' was firstly an attempt to introduce the appearance of accountability as the market was …
Writing Off Slovakia to “The East”? Examining Charges of Bias in British Press Reporting of Slovakia, 1993–1994
Along with her better known Czech neighbour, Slovakia is one of Europe's newest states. Born over the new year of 1993, it is the latest product of the unravelling of the post-communist order. A small nation—although at 5,269,000, it has a larger population than Norway, Denmark or Finland—Slovakia has yet to make a significant impact on European consciousness. This is illustrated by the repeated reply of a Slovak woman, living in London, to the q…
Flattering Consumption
This article argues that the unprecedented prominence of consumer groups in contemporary Europe is not the product of a ‘bottom up' process driven by newly demanding consumers. Drawing particularly upon the examples of the UK and the EU, it is argued that the politicization of ‘the consumer' in Europe has come from above. The creation of the ‘citizen consumer' was firstly an attempt to introduce the appearance of accountability as the market was …
Writing Off Slovakia to “The East”? Examining Charges of Bias in British Press Reporting of Slovakia, 1993–1994
Along with her better known Czech neighbour, Slovakia is one of Europe's newest states. Born over the new year of 1993, it is the latest product of the unravelling of the post-communist order. A small nation—although at 5,269,000, it has a larger population than Norway, Denmark or Finland—Slovakia has yet to make a significant impact on European consciousness. This is illustrated by the repeated reply of a Slovak woman, living in London, to the q…
Flattering Consumption
This article argues that the unprecedented prominence of consumer groups in contemporary Europe is not the product of a ‘bottom up' process driven by newly demanding consumers. Drawing particularly upon the examples of the UK and the EU, it is argued that the politicization of ‘the consumer' in Europe has come from above. The creation of the ‘citizen consumer' was firstly an attempt to introduce the appearance of accountability as the market was …
Comparing national responses to perceived health risks from mobile phone masts
This article concerns responses to health risk concerns about electromagnetic emissions \nfrom mobile phone masts. The article draws particular attention to the differential patterns of state \nresponse in the UK, USA, Italy, Ireland and Australia. It concludes that precautionary government \nresponses have played a role in the ‘social construction’ of risk perceptions
The making of the risk-centred society and the limits of social risk research
Despite the apparent triumph of social perspectives on risk, the predominant approach to risk is less social and contextual than is often supposed. A widespread acceptance of a constructionist approach is more formal than substantive. Risk ‘objects’ and events remain given and objectified in many accounts, at the same time as they have been subject to little critical empirical enquiry. Iconic risk events such as the BSE crisis and Chernobyl have …
Téléphones portables et stations-service
Risk, time and reason
Over time, a number of alternative approaches to risk have developed and, while these co-exist, they structure time in different ways and are grounded in different combinations of cognitive rationality and affect. The initial conceptualization of risk, which remains prominent, was based on the use of knowledge from past events to provide the context for choices which minimize harm in the future. It underpins structured approaches to decision maki…
Real and phantom risks at the petrol station
This case study examines the alleged hazard associated with mobile phone use at petrol stations and suggests that it is a phantom risk. Understanding its persistence in the absence of evidence, a number of factors are outlined. A precautionary safety regime enforced by oil companies in the UK established a restriction on mobile use on station forecourts that had the effect of confirming a danger. Warning signs in mobile phone handbooks had a simi…
Revisiting the BSE experience
The Politics of BSE, R. Packer, London, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 320, £50, (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-1403985293. What's the Beef?: The Contested Governance of European Food Safety, edited by Christopher K. Ansell and David Vogel, Massachusetts, MIT Press, pp. 397, £17.95 (pbk) ISBN 13: 978-0262511926. This review essay on risk, politics and food focuses particularly on an important new insider account of how the BSE crisis was managed by one of the main …
‘Passive Drinking’
This article reflects on UK Chief Medical Officer's (CMO) 2009 announcement that alcohol abuse should be understood as a problem of ‘passive drinking’. This was an attempt to instrumentally problematise drinking drawing on the successful campaign against ‘passive smoking’. An implausible term that originated as an anti-state interventionist joke, both ‘passive drinking's’ lack of impact but also the lack of criticism its revelation attracted are …
Scared to death. From BSE to global warming
Constructing sexual risk
Women-only train carriages have been introduced in Japan as a response to widespread groping (chikan) by men. In August 2007, 155 young women completed a survey at a variety of locations in central Tokyo, mainly at the popular meeting places, Shinjuku and Shibuya. The survey involved face-to-face interviews conducted mainly by young female interviewers. The numbers involved are insufficient for rigorous statistical analysis and in this pilot stud…
Routledge Handbook of Risk Studies
In Germany debates about risk developed along different lines from those in many other countries. In the US, Ron Johnston noted as early as 1980 that working on risk issues was ‘big business’ (1980: 105) and, in the same year, the Society of Risk Analysis was founded which produces the well-known international journal, Risk Analysis. At this time, in Germany, similar research was less well developed; however, technical-oriented risk research, in …
The development of risk politics in the UK
Thirty years on from the dramatic and unprecedented AIDS advertising campaign in the UK organised by the Conservative government of the late 1980s, this article reassesses the experience drawing upon subsequent memoirs and interviews. It does so in the context of an emergence of risk politics in the UK in the 1980s, situated within an historical perspective on the development of risk within modernity. I emphasise the forgotten pragmatic, amoral c…
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