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A Framework of Intersectional Risk Theory in the Age of AmbivalenceDoing, Redoing, and Doing Away: Performing Risk

A Framework of Intersectional Risk Theory in the Age of Ambivalence: Doing, Redoing, and Doing... [This chapter theoretically explores performance and performativity and understandings of the power of risk and how it can be challenged. To fully understand the power dimensions of risk and how these can be challenged, there is a need to address both practice and performativity. Agency is in the foreground, but the discussion includes how agency relates to ideology and other social structures and how reality relates to discourse. The ontological status of ‘risk’—that is, whether it is ‘real’ or merely constructed—has been the subject of intense debate, and there is no consensus within the research community on this issue. The chapter includes a discussion of how we can gain knowledge about the relationship between the awareness of risk and the materialised consequences in the life of the individual. The chapter shows the importance of the local and particular to gain knowledge of the relationship between experiences and discourse. However, the chapter begins with an overview of risk theories that situate risk subjects in an individualised and reflexive context, and moves from there to a feminist discussion of the relationship between the performance of risk and the doing of gender. The chapter ends with a discussion on resistance and how the relationship between risk and inequality can be redone or undone.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Framework of Intersectional Risk Theory in the Age of AmbivalenceDoing, Redoing, and Doing Away: Performing Risk

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-33523-6
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79 –99
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10.1007/978-3-030-33524-3_5
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Abstract

[This chapter theoretically explores performance and performativity and understandings of the power of risk and how it can be challenged. To fully understand the power dimensions of risk and how these can be challenged, there is a need to address both practice and performativity. Agency is in the foreground, but the discussion includes how agency relates to ideology and other social structures and how reality relates to discourse. The ontological status of ‘risk’—that is, whether it is ‘real’ or merely constructed—has been the subject of intense debate, and there is no consensus within the research community on this issue. The chapter includes a discussion of how we can gain knowledge about the relationship between the awareness of risk and the materialised consequences in the life of the individual. The chapter shows the importance of the local and particular to gain knowledge of the relationship between experiences and discourse. However, the chapter begins with an overview of risk theories that situate risk subjects in an individualised and reflexive context, and moves from there to a feminist discussion of the relationship between the performance of risk and the doing of gender. The chapter ends with a discussion on resistance and how the relationship between risk and inequality can be redone or undone.]

Published: Dec 12, 2019

Keywords: Risk; Intersectionality; Performance; Doing gender; Resistance

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