The Search for a Landfill Site in the Risk Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12925663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saleem H Ali (0000-0003-0961-4327, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 1999-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-6171 • E-ISSN: 1755-618X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1755-618x.1999.tb01267.x |
| OpenAlex | W2011783765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 30 |
Cette étude examine comment les inquiétudes concernant les risques de l'environnement ont été traitées dans une recherche d'un site d'enfouissement des déchets qu'on a menée récemment à Guelph, Ontario. L'argument sera que les interactions observées entre expert et profane ainsi que le genre de questions soulevées peuvent être comprises en termes de la thèse de la societéà risque proposée par Ulrick Beck. En particulier, cette étude montrera comment la science de l'impact de l'environnement a été restructurée pour s'occuper des conditions de la sociétéà risque. This paper examines how concerns about environmental risk were treated in an landfill search that was recently conducted in Guelph, Ontario. It is argued that the expert‐lay interactions observed, and the types of issues raised, may be understood in terms of the risk society thesis proposed by Ulrich Beck. In particular, it is shown how environmental impact science was restructured to deal with the conditions of the risk society
Argument (complex analysis · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Humanities · Risk society · Social science · Sociology · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Medicine · Philosophy · Risk Perception and Management
Experts’ understanding of the public
Dealing with Toxicity in the Risk Society
International Capital Versus Local Population
Making waste management public (or falling back to sleep)
Waste, Environmental Politics and Dis/Engaged Publics
Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling
Risk and panic in late modernity
Moral panic versus the risk society
Ecological politics in an age of risk
Environment and society
Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise
Risk, Environment and Modernity
Rationality and Nature
Backyards, Nimbys, and Incinerator Sitings
Definitions of conflict and the legitimation of resources
Canadian Environmental Policy
Winning Back the Words
Unruly Technology
The "Environmental Justice" Frame
Risk society
The Impact of Citizen Participation on Hazardous Waste Policy Implementation
Assault on a Precious Commodity
Green Ambivalence about Science
Worrying about waste
Ecological modernisation and institutional reflexivity
Trust, Risk and the Public
Dumping in Dixie
Acting Locally
Environment, Modernity and the Risk-Society
In Science We Trust? On the Relation Between Scientific Knowledge, Risk Consciousness and Public Trust
Environmental Controversies, Interactional Resources, and Rural Communities
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2017 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |