Modes of Uncertainty - Anthropological Cases

Informationen zum Autor Limor Samimian-Darash is assistant professor at the Federman School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Paul Rabinow is professor of anthropology at the University of California! Berkeley. He is the author or coauthor of many books! including! most recently! Designs on the Contemporary! Demands of the Day! and Designing Human Practices! all published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Taking up policies and experiences as objects of research and analysis, the essays here seek a rigorous inquiry into a sound conceptualization of uncertainty in order to better confront contemporary problems. This book offers different ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Zusammenfassung Taking up policies and experiences as objects of research and analysis! the essays here seek a rigorous inquiry into a sound conceptualization of uncertainty in order to better confront contemporary problems. This book offers different ways of thinking about danger! risk! and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective.

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• Authors: Paul Rabinow, Limor Samimian-Darash, Limor Rabinow Samimian-Darash
• Assisted by: Paul Rabinow (Editor), Rabinow Paul (Editor), Limor Samimian-Darash (Editor), Samimian-Darash Limor (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2015
• EAN: 9780226257105
• ISBN: 978-0-226-25710-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology