Adam Burge
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 302886 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Adam Burge |
| NOMBRES | Adam |
| APELLIDO | Burge |
| FIRMA | BURGE A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9818-2620 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
‘More options…less time’ in the ‘hustle culture’ of ‘generation sensible’
There has been a dramatic decline in alcohol consumption among younger people, including an increase of conscious moderation and abstinence. Change has a generational character, with different cohorts' drinking changing over time from the heavy, embedded pattern among post‐war ‘boomers’ to the more selective habits initiated by ‘millennials’. This is a surprising development in historical terms and has been cast as indicating the emergence of a m…
Mapping and characterising changes to risk amplification within the British Press
British news media were central to the amplification of health risk concerns in the late 1990s and early 2000s such as mobile phone radiation, genetically modified foods and the MMR vaccine, which made an international impact. Few comparable examples seemed to follow, suggesting this was a distinctive period of risk amplification. This impression was investigated both qualitatively and quantitatively. Content analyses were conducted on a corpus o…
Environmental risk narratives in historical perspective
The ‘storying’ of risk is an important and neglected dimension and narratives such as ‘nuclear catastrophism’ have powerfully framed experience and acquired considerable independence, with ‘what might have been’ becoming inseparable from as real as what actually did. This article builds upon limited earlier risk narrative research, focusing upon their historical development in the United States and UK. Analysis proceeds from an understanding of r…
Prestige, Performance and Social Pressure in Viral Challenge Memes
This article examines social media challenges that emerged in 2013, focusing on Neknomination, the Ice-Bucket Challenge and SmearForSmear. We understand them as 'viral challenge memes' that manifest a set of consistent features, making them a distinctive phenomenon within digital culture. Drawing upon Tarde's concept of the imitative-encounter, we highlight three central features: their basis in social belonging and participation; the role of pre…
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…
Considering risk
Towards a New Modernity (1992) -sold some 60,000 copies.This represents an unprecedented volume of sales for a non-textbook work of social science (see Lash and Wynne 1992: 1).Using Google's NGram viewer -which maps trends in book citations over time -a consistently high and rising rate of references can be observed from 1987 into the new millennium.Readers of risk research journals will be familiar with the frequency with which Beck's thesis is …
The prophecy of Ulrich Beck
This special issue on the legacy of Ulrich Beck is aimed to stimulate reflection both on the specific uses to which Beck’s conceptual and theoretical apparatus can be put within risk studies and the wider significance of his academic project for the social sciences. In this end-piece, we draw out the key themes which surface in the different contributions relating to five particular areas: the nature of risk; advancements in methods; issues of no…
Individualization revisited
As part of our special issue appreciating the work of Ulrich Beck, this article introduces and rearticulates his concept of individualization for an audience beyond those engaged with sociological theory. It is argued to be the ‘forgotten half’ of Beck’s approach that is in particular need of both restatement and reaffirmation of its contemporary relevance. It does so by firstly contextualizing and explaining its comparatively limited impact befo…
Community at Risk
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…
Risk, ritual and health responsibilisation
This article begins to develop an understanding of surgical mask-wearing in Japan, now a routine practice against a range of health threats. Their usage and associated meanings are explored through surveys conducted in Tokyo with both mask wearers and non-mask wearers. It contests commonly held cultural views of the practice as a fixed and distinctively Japanese collective courtesy to others. A historical analysis suggests that an originally coll…
Scared to death. From BSE to global warming
The changing character of public inquiries in the (risk) regulatory state
Thinking culturally about risk
Ferrari's book is a welcome addition to the still limited literature on the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) experience which, unlike any other specific response to a disease, played an important role in reshaping modern governance and consolidating key assumptions about the world around us. The ‘mad cow’ crisis began in 1986 when the unfathomable bovine brain disease was identified, but was then reignited with the shocking discovery a deca…
Risk rituals
This article considers how risks are responded to through behavioral adaptations and avoidance strategies. We observe that such behavior can become totemistic and have a limited relationship to the risk it ostensibly answers to. Drawing upon examples such as recycling and original data from a study on drink‐spiking avoidance, the article sets out a new concept for discussing and understanding such risk‐related behavior: the ‘risk ritual’. We elab…
Media risk campaigning in the UK
A distinctive risk campaigning by particular British media emerged in the late 1990s through three issues: mobile phones, genetically modified organisms and the campaign to expose sex offenders. Subsequently such campaigning has become normalised and generalised, culminating with the 2008 campaign to attribute blame for the death of the murdered child, 'Baby P'. Their distinctive evolution and characteristics are considered. Central to their succ…
‘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 …
Embodying Uncertainty
There is a stark contrast between heightened perceptions of risk associated with drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) and a lack of evidence that this is a widespread threat. Through surveys and interviews with university students in the United Kingdom and United States, we explore knowledge and beliefs about drink-spiking and the linked threat of sexual assault. University students in both locations are not only widely sensitized to the issue,…
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…
Mobile Phones and Service Stations
The apparent erosion of public trust has become a defining feature of our age (Fukuyama, 1996; Sztompka, 2000). Collapse of trust in the political process is the subject of intellectual concern and reaction (Warren, 1999; Bentley, 2005). Another important focus for analysis and response to mistrust is science and technology risk management. Sociology is at the forefront of problematizing science and technology risk management, proposing a renegot…
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
The Shock of a Social Disaster in an Age of (Nonsocial) Risk
The distinctly socially differentiated impact of the New Orleans flood stands in marked contrast to the nonsocial character of disasters and inquiries we have become accustomed to in the “risk society.”
Risk, ritual and health responsibilisation
This article begins to develop an understanding of surgical mask-wearing in Japan, now a routine practice against a range of health threats. Their usage and associated meanings are explored through surveys conducted in Tokyo with both mask wearers and non-mask wearers. It contests commonly held cultural views of the practice as a fixed and distinctively Japanese collective courtesy to others. A historical analysis suggests that an originally coll…
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 …
Prestige, Performance and Social Pressure in Viral Challenge Memes
This article examines social media challenges that emerged in 2013, focusing on Neknomination, the Ice-Bucket Challenge and SmearForSmear. We understand them as 'viral challenge memes' that manifest a set of consistent features, making them a distinctive phenomenon within digital culture. Drawing upon Tarde's concept of the imitative-encounter, we highlight three central features: their basis in social belonging and participation; the role of pre…
Media risk campaigning in the UK
A distinctive risk campaigning by particular British media emerged in the late 1990s through three issues: mobile phones, genetically modified organisms and the campaign to expose sex offenders. Subsequently such campaigning has become normalised and generalised, culminating with the 2008 campaign to attribute blame for the death of the murdered child, 'Baby P'. Their distinctive evolution and characteristics are considered. Central to their succ…
Considering risk
Towards a New Modernity (1992) -sold some 60,000 copies.This represents an unprecedented volume of sales for a non-textbook work of social science (see Lash and Wynne 1992: 1).Using Google's NGram viewer -which maps trends in book citations over time -a consistently high and rising rate of references can be observed from 1987 into the new millennium.Readers of risk research journals will be familiar with the frequency with which Beck's thesis is …
The changing character of public inquiries in the (risk) regulatory state
Embodying Uncertainty
There is a stark contrast between heightened perceptions of risk associated with drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) and a lack of evidence that this is a widespread threat. Through surveys and interviews with university students in the United Kingdom and United States, we explore knowledge and beliefs about drink-spiking and the linked threat of sexual assault. University students in both locations are not only widely sensitized to the issue,…
The prophecy of Ulrich Beck
This special issue on the legacy of Ulrich Beck is aimed to stimulate reflection both on the specific uses to which Beck’s conceptual and theoretical apparatus can be put within risk studies and the wider significance of his academic project for the social sciences. In this end-piece, we draw out the key themes which surface in the different contributions relating to five particular areas: the nature of risk; advancements in methods; issues of no…
Environmental risk narratives in historical perspective
The ‘storying’ of risk is an important and neglected dimension and narratives such as ‘nuclear catastrophism’ have powerfully framed experience and acquired considerable independence, with ‘what might have been’ becoming inseparable from as real as what actually did. This article builds upon limited earlier risk narrative research, focusing upon their historical development in the United States and UK. Analysis proceeds from an understanding of r…
Individualization revisited
As part of our special issue appreciating the work of Ulrich Beck, this article introduces and rearticulates his concept of individualization for an audience beyond those engaged with sociological theory. It is argued to be the ‘forgotten half’ of Beck’s approach that is in particular need of both restatement and reaffirmation of its contemporary relevance. It does so by firstly contextualizing and explaining its comparatively limited impact befo…
Universal Democracy, Diminished Expectation
This wide-ranging article identifies some general characteristics of democratization with the intention of stimulating further discussion. The contemporary debate appears largely unreflective, and often curiously pessimistic about outcomes. There is little questioning of a global 'democratic imperative', which now even insists upon making democratic advances beyond just the electoral sphere. Yet there appears little expectation that such initiati…
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 …
Universal Democracy, Diminished Expectation
This wide-ranging article identifies some general characteristics of democratization with the intention of stimulating further discussion. The contemporary debate appears largely unreflective, and often curiously pessimistic about outcomes. There is little questioning of a global 'democratic imperative', which now even insists upon making democratic advances beyond just the electoral sphere. Yet there appears little expectation that such initiati…
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
A precautionary tale
The UK led the campaign for precautionary responses to cell phone EMF. The experience which informed this approach was BSE, a disease that originated and had greatest impact in the UK. Unsurprisingly, British politicians have responded even more directly than the EU to the cell phone issue, seeking to prove that they have "learnt their lesson." The highly selective lesson was that seeking to reassure the public about a relatively small risk is di…
The Shock of a Social Disaster in an Age of (Nonsocial) Risk
The distinctly socially differentiated impact of the New Orleans flood stands in marked contrast to the nonsocial character of disasters and inquiries we have become accustomed to in the “risk society.”
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…
Mobile Phones and Service Stations
The apparent erosion of public trust has become a defining feature of our age (Fukuyama, 1996; Sztompka, 2000). Collapse of trust in the political process is the subject of intellectual concern and reaction (Warren, 1999; Bentley, 2005). Another important focus for analysis and response to mistrust is science and technology risk management. Sociology is at the forefront of problematizing science and technology risk management, proposing a renegot…
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 …
Embodying Uncertainty
There is a stark contrast between heightened perceptions of risk associated with drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) and a lack of evidence that this is a widespread threat. Through surveys and interviews with university students in the United Kingdom and United States, we explore knowledge and beliefs about drink-spiking and the linked threat of sexual assault. University students in both locations are not only widely sensitized to the issue,…
Risk rituals
This article considers how risks are responded to through behavioral adaptations and avoidance strategies. We observe that such behavior can become totemistic and have a limited relationship to the risk it ostensibly answers to. Drawing upon examples such as recycling and original data from a study on drink‐spiking avoidance, the article sets out a new concept for discussing and understanding such risk‐related behavior: the ‘risk ritual’. We elab…
Media risk campaigning in the UK
A distinctive risk campaigning by particular British media emerged in the late 1990s through three issues: mobile phones, genetically modified organisms and the campaign to expose sex offenders. Subsequently such campaigning has become normalised and generalised, culminating with the 2008 campaign to attribute blame for the death of the murdered child, 'Baby P'. Their distinctive evolution and characteristics are considered. Central to their succ…
Scared to death. From BSE to global warming
The changing character of public inquiries in the (risk) regulatory state
Thinking culturally about risk
Ferrari's book is a welcome addition to the still limited literature on the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) experience which, unlike any other specific response to a disease, played an important role in reshaping modern governance and consolidating key assumptions about the world around us. The ‘mad cow’ crisis began in 1986 when the unfathomable bovine brain disease was identified, but was then reignited with the shocking discovery a deca…
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…
Risk, ritual and health responsibilisation
This article begins to develop an understanding of surgical mask-wearing in Japan, now a routine practice against a range of health threats. Their usage and associated meanings are explored through surveys conducted in Tokyo with both mask wearers and non-mask wearers. It contests commonly held cultural views of the practice as a fixed and distinctively Japanese collective courtesy to others. A historical analysis suggests that an originally coll…
Community at Risk
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…
Considering risk
Towards a New Modernity (1992) -sold some 60,000 copies.This represents an unprecedented volume of sales for a non-textbook work of social science (see Lash and Wynne 1992: 1).Using Google's NGram viewer -which maps trends in book citations over time -a consistently high and rising rate of references can be observed from 1987 into the new millennium.Readers of risk research journals will be familiar with the frequency with which Beck's thesis is …
The prophecy of Ulrich Beck
This special issue on the legacy of Ulrich Beck is aimed to stimulate reflection both on the specific uses to which Beck’s conceptual and theoretical apparatus can be put within risk studies and the wider significance of his academic project for the social sciences. In this end-piece, we draw out the key themes which surface in the different contributions relating to five particular areas: the nature of risk; advancements in methods; issues of no…
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