What isSafe? Cultural Citizenship, Visual Culture and Risk

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2642222
AutoresNick Stevenson (0000-0002-0602-4156, University of Nottingham, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen10
Número2
Páginas157-166
Fecha de publicación2005-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5153/sro.1105
OpenAlexW2141423744
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas32

Questions of cultural citizenship and risk have become central to contemporary sociological debates. This paper seeks to relate these concerns to a discussion of ecological citizenship and questions of visual and commercial culture. In the first section, I argue that ecological citizenship needs to avoid a moralistic rejection of the pleasures of contemporary visual and consumer culture. Such a possibility I argue has become evident in recent debates on the risk society. However, I argue despite Beck's realisation that questions of risk become defined through contemporary media his analysis remains overly distant from more everyday understandings. In order to address this question, I seek to demonstrate how an interpretative understanding of visual culture (in this case the 1995 film Safe) might help us develop more complex understandings of the competing cultures of risk and citizenship

Aesthetics · Citizenship · Contemporary society · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Realisation · Social science · Sociology · Visual culture · Anthropology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies