Tom Horlick-Jones and risk work

In this review, I examine Tom Horlick-Jones’s contribution to risk work—the ways in which individuals in their everyday activities select and make sense of risk issues and take and subsequently account for actions in relationship to such issues. I consider Tom Horlick-Jones’s background as a natural science and the ways in which his concerns about the social consequences of science drew him to work on practical issues that effect everyday life such as risk and disasters. I identify several key themes in Horlick-Jones’s work: including his awareness of the importance and limitations of grand social theory such as Beck’s Risk Society and Foucault’s governmentality and the insights offered by Garfinkel and other ethnomethodologists into the practical reasoning that individuals use in everyday life; his interest in ethnographic methods as a means of identifying the practical reasoning that underlies risk work; and his commitment to making changes by working with policy makers and community groups. In his study of risk work, Tom Horlick-Jones shows the importance of combining direct observation with other sources of data so that the accounts which individuals gave of their activities are not detached from the activities. Risk work involves both practical reasoning and practical action and individuals not only have to take actions to manage risk but also have to subsequently account for what they have done

Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Governmentality · Political science · Politics · Risk society · Social science · Sociology · Disaster Management and Resilience · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management · Social Psychology

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• ‘I have really learned how to smile with my eyes’. Risk work and embodied care practices among nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark

  Frederik Jacques Paulsen, Patrick Stypinsky Rasmussen et al.•Health Risk & Society•2024

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• Reconfiguration of the boundaries of occupational risk prevention observed during the Covid-19 pandemic

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• Discipline and Punish

  Open Access•Michel Foucault•On Violence•2007

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• Discipline and Punish

  Michel Foucault, Simon Prebble•Surveiller et punir•2019

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• Decision support for organisational risk management by problem structuring

  Tom Horlick-Jones, Tom Horlick‐Jones et al.•Health Risk & Society•2001

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• Perspectives on ‘the lens of risk’ interview series

  Bob Heyman, Patrick Brown•Health Risk & Society•2013

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• On ‘risk work’

  Tom Horlick-Jones, Tom Horlick‐Jones•Health Risk & Society•2005

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• Decision support for organisational risk management by problem structuring

  Tom Horlick-Jones, Tom Horlick‐Jones et al.•Health Risk & Society•2001

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• Risk Society

  Ulrich Beck•Encyclopedia of Social Theory•2005

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• The Discovery of the Asylum

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• Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk

  Kate Burningham, Ulrich Beck•British Journal of Sociology•1997

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• The Police on Skid-Row

  Egon Bittner•American Sociological Review•1967

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• Risk Society, Towards a New Modernity

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• Asylums

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• The rise of surveillance medicine

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