Asa Boholm
Biographic Data
| ID | 3715393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asa Boholm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asa |
| FAMILY NAME | Boholm |
| SIGNATURE | BOHOLM Å |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology University of Gothenburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Indispensable, yet Invisible
Local policy-makers’ incentives to address an issue is conditioned by how they perceive public attention. Our study focuses on drinking water management at the municipal level in Sweden. Provisioning and management of drinking water is a responsibility of the local governments. Interviews with local politicians and public administrators in seven municipalities reveal that local policy-makers think that citizens view provisioning of drinking water…
Anthropology and Risk
Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in society are conditioned by knowledge claims and cultural assumptions and by the orientationof actors based on roles, norms, expectations, identities, …
New Perspectives on Risk Communication
Facility Siting
Introduction * The Importance of Context in Siting Controversies: The Case of High-level Nuclear Waste in the US * Where Does It Go? Siting Methods and Social Representations of Radioactive Waste in France * Institutional Thinking in Siting Conflicts: The Case of stripa Mine * Siting Conflicts in Renewable Energy Projects: Biogas Case Study * The Smell of Money: Minor Risks and Olfactory Sensibilities (Anatomy of a Protest) * Living with Technolo…
Anthropology and decision making
This article, part of a set of three articles, calls for a critical reexamination of a plethora of phenomena relating to choice and decision making, occasionally addressed by anthropologists, but more regularly studied by economists, political scientists, psychologists, and organization scholars. By means of a bird's-eye research overview, we identify certain weak spots pertaining to a formalistic unicentral view of human rationality, and argue t…
Speaking of Risk
The risk communication (RC) field is dominated by the practical and normative socio-technical aim of improving communication on risk (CR), especially from the viewpoint of regulatory agencies and government administrations. Despite some change of scope and orientation over the past 30 years, two theoretical ideas have persisted: the subjective–objective risk dichotomy and the transmission (also known as code) model of communication. This theoreti…
The successor of St Peter. Incorporated meanings and textual symbolism in medieval inaugurations
Un recent debat sur la memoire collective et la transmission de la connaissance s'est attache a distinguer deux formes primaires de production opposant pratiques d'incorporation et pratiques d'inscription. Celles-ci doivent etre moins considerees comme mutuellement exclusives que comme deux modalites coexistantes produisant chacune les messages par lesquels la societe commemore son passe. Un recours a la theorie de Kantorowicz sur les deux corps …
Greater good' in transit
Large-scale technological projects are born as visions among politicians and leaders of industry. For such visions to become real, they must be transformed from a virtual existence in the minds of their creators to a reality that can be accepted, even welcomed, by the public, not least by the communities who will become neighbors to those projects. Democracy implies that political decisions over the expenditure of public funds should answer not m…
The cultural nature of risk
In risk research, culture has been used mainly as a 'black box' of unknowns into which 'irregularities' of risk perceptions that could not be otherwise accounted for can be referred. In social anthropology it has been taken for granted that what is to be considered a 'risk' depends entirely on cultural settings and assumptions; risks are culturally defined and selected. This article takes a critical stance towards any such simplistic ideas about …
Situated risk
Comparative studies of risk perception
This paper critically reviews a number of cross-national studies of perceptions of risks which have been conducted in accordance with the 'psychometric paradigm' developed by the Oregon research group in the 1970s. It considers attempts to study risk perception comparatively, from other theoretical and methodological perspectives, and discusses various issues that are highlighted in a comparative framework, relating to distinctions between 'objec…
Reinvented Histories
Risk perception and social anthropology
Cultural theory', launched by social anthropologist Mary Douglas, has been highly influential in the inter-disciplinary field concerned with the study of risk perception and risk communication. The theory derives from the grid-group analyses that Douglas developed in the 1970s. Cultural theory aims to explain universal 'cultural bias' by way of a general typology of group formation and a concomitant cosmology or world view. This article criticall…
The Coronation of Female Death
The Doge of Venice
The cultural nature of risk
In risk research, culture has been used mainly as a 'black box' of unknowns into which 'irregularities' of risk perceptions that could not be otherwise accounted for can be referred. In social anthropology it has been taken for granted that what is to be considered a 'risk' depends entirely on cultural settings and assumptions; risks are culturally defined and selected. This article takes a critical stance towards any such simplistic ideas about …
Risk perception and social anthropology
Cultural theory', launched by social anthropologist Mary Douglas, has been highly influential in the inter-disciplinary field concerned with the study of risk perception and risk communication. The theory derives from the grid-group analyses that Douglas developed in the 1970s. Cultural theory aims to explain universal 'cultural bias' by way of a general typology of group formation and a concomitant cosmology or world view. This article criticall…
Anthropology and decision making
This article, part of a set of three articles, calls for a critical reexamination of a plethora of phenomena relating to choice and decision making, occasionally addressed by anthropologists, but more regularly studied by economists, political scientists, psychologists, and organization scholars. By means of a bird's-eye research overview, we identify certain weak spots pertaining to a formalistic unicentral view of human rationality, and argue t…
Situated risk
Reinvented Histories
Indispensable, yet Invisible
Local policy-makers’ incentives to address an issue is conditioned by how they perceive public attention. Our study focuses on drinking water management at the municipal level in Sweden. Provisioning and management of drinking water is a responsibility of the local governments. Interviews with local politicians and public administrators in seven municipalities reveal that local policy-makers think that citizens view provisioning of drinking water…
The Doge of Venice
The Coronation of Female Death
The Doge of Venice
The Coronation of Female Death
Risk perception and social anthropology
Cultural theory', launched by social anthropologist Mary Douglas, has been highly influential in the inter-disciplinary field concerned with the study of risk perception and risk communication. The theory derives from the grid-group analyses that Douglas developed in the 1970s. Cultural theory aims to explain universal 'cultural bias' by way of a general typology of group formation and a concomitant cosmology or world view. This article criticall…
Reinvented Histories
Comparative studies of risk perception
This paper critically reviews a number of cross-national studies of perceptions of risks which have been conducted in accordance with the 'psychometric paradigm' developed by the Oregon research group in the 1970s. It considers attempts to study risk perception comparatively, from other theoretical and methodological perspectives, and discusses various issues that are highlighted in a comparative framework, relating to distinctions between 'objec…
The cultural nature of risk
In risk research, culture has been used mainly as a 'black box' of unknowns into which 'irregularities' of risk perceptions that could not be otherwise accounted for can be referred. In social anthropology it has been taken for granted that what is to be considered a 'risk' depends entirely on cultural settings and assumptions; risks are culturally defined and selected. This article takes a critical stance towards any such simplistic ideas about …
Situated risk
Greater good' in transit
Large-scale technological projects are born as visions among politicians and leaders of industry. For such visions to become real, they must be transformed from a virtual existence in the minds of their creators to a reality that can be accepted, even welcomed, by the public, not least by the communities who will become neighbors to those projects. Democracy implies that political decisions over the expenditure of public funds should answer not m…
The successor of St Peter. Incorporated meanings and textual symbolism in medieval inaugurations
Un recent debat sur la memoire collective et la transmission de la connaissance s'est attache a distinguer deux formes primaires de production opposant pratiques d'incorporation et pratiques d'inscription. Celles-ci doivent etre moins considerees comme mutuellement exclusives que comme deux modalites coexistantes produisant chacune les messages par lesquels la societe commemore son passe. Un recours a la theorie de Kantorowicz sur les deux corps …
Speaking of Risk
The risk communication (RC) field is dominated by the practical and normative socio-technical aim of improving communication on risk (CR), especially from the viewpoint of regulatory agencies and government administrations. Despite some change of scope and orientation over the past 30 years, two theoretical ideas have persisted: the subjective–objective risk dichotomy and the transmission (also known as code) model of communication. This theoreti…
New Perspectives on Risk Communication
Facility Siting
Introduction * The Importance of Context in Siting Controversies: The Case of High-level Nuclear Waste in the US * Where Does It Go? Siting Methods and Social Representations of Radioactive Waste in France * Institutional Thinking in Siting Conflicts: The Case of stripa Mine * Siting Conflicts in Renewable Energy Projects: Biogas Case Study * The Smell of Money: Minor Risks and Olfactory Sensibilities (Anatomy of a Protest) * Living with Technolo…
Anthropology and decision making
This article, part of a set of three articles, calls for a critical reexamination of a plethora of phenomena relating to choice and decision making, occasionally addressed by anthropologists, but more regularly studied by economists, political scientists, psychologists, and organization scholars. By means of a bird's-eye research overview, we identify certain weak spots pertaining to a formalistic unicentral view of human rationality, and argue t…
Anthropology and Risk
Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in society are conditioned by knowledge claims and cultural assumptions and by the orientationof actors based on roles, norms, expectations, identities, …
Indispensable, yet Invisible
Local policy-makers’ incentives to address an issue is conditioned by how they perceive public attention. Our study focuses on drinking water management at the municipal level in Sweden. Provisioning and management of drinking water is a responsibility of the local governments. Interviews with local politicians and public administrators in seven municipalities reveal that local policy-makers think that citizens view provisioning of drinking water…
Sociology (8 works) · Risk Perception and Management (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Cultural anthropology (3 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works)