A theory of risk colonization: The spiralling regulatory logics of societal and institutional risk

Rothstein, Henry; Huber, Michael; Gaskell, George

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“…As we hope to have demonstrated, the relationship between risk and rights is far more complex and unpredictable than these logics suggest. 19 Wider questions such as when concepts of risk should be defended or risk management practices deployed for progressive ends (O'Malley 2004: 8;Maurutto and Hannah-Moffat 2006: 451;Rothstein et al 2006;Zinger 2004) also remain to be explored, especially when considered in the context of combined risk and rights discourses.…”

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Risk and Human Rights in UK Prison Governance

Murphy¹,

Whitty²

2007

British Journal of Criminology

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A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. everywhere that risk appears, it is assembled into complex configurations with other technologies… '(2004: 26-7). This article responds to that appeal by focusing specifically on prison governance in the UK. It aims, first, to draw attention to a range of intersections between risk and human rights, and argues that these intersections require analysis. Secondly, it suggests some key features of a 'risk and rights' analysis by drawing upon insights from within criminology, human rights law and regulation scholarship. In order to explore these issues, we have divided the article into three parts. The first part speculates on British criminology's (non) engagement with human rights and queries why the growth in prisoner rights litigation has not registered in criminology scholarship on prisons. 2 Then, in the second part, we highlight the widespread lack of engagement with risk amongst (human rights) lawyers, both at the theoretical level and in terms of the uses of risk assessment and management in legal practice. In the final part of the article, we argue that criminologists and lawyers should be examining the co-existence of risk and rights discourses in UK prison governance and we suggest some key features of a 'risk and rights' stream of academic enquiry. Part One: Criminologists and Human Rights

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Risk and Human Rights in UK Prison Governance

Murphy¹,

Whitty²

2007

British Journal of Criminology

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“…It was only later, with publication of the Government's Independent Review (Bye & Horner 1998), that press attention shifted to how The increasing focus of media coverage on policy and governance has helped transform flooding from an uncontrollable act of God to be endured into foreseeable risk that must be managed through appropriate precautionary action. In turn, discharging that responsibility creates the additional institutional risk of liability and blame in the event of failure (Rothstein et al 2006). The word 'blame' appears quite sparingly in news coverage in the 1980s and 1990s…”

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Flooding and the framing of risk in British broadsheets, 1985–2010

Escobar

Demeritt

2012

Public Underst Sci

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Our analysis of 2707 news stories explores the framing of flooding over the past quarter century and the displacement of a once dominant understanding of flooding as an agricultural problem of land drainage by the contemporary concern for its urban impacts, particularly to homes and property. We document dramatic changes in the volume and variety of reporting about flooding since 2000 as the risks of flooding have become more salient, the informal 'Gentlemen's Agreement' between government and private insurers has broken down, and flood management subjected to greater public scrutiny. While the historic reliance on private insurance remains largely unchallenged, we show that other aspects of flood hazard management are now topics of active political debate to which the looming threat of climate change adds both urgency and exculpatory excuses for poor performance. We conclude by reflecting on the significance of the case for grand theories of neoliberalization and governmentality.

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“…Rothstein and others (Power 2004;Rothstein, Huber, and Gaskell 2006;Huber and Rothstein 2013) have for instance observed how in 'the developed West' more and more practices are framed in terms of risk, 'colonizing' the public agenda, as it were, in order to reflexively manage institutional threats. But the contextdependent historical emergence of risk discourses does provide a valid starting point for understanding what factors facilitate or hamper new objects to be understood in terms of risk and to understand how both risk and the new context change in the process.…”

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Travelling risks: How did nanotechnology become a risk in India and South Africa?

Beumer

2017

Journal of Risk Research

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India and South Africa have invested in nanotechnology since the early 2000s and have identified risks to human health and the environment as an important issue for governance. This is exemplary for a wider trend in which 'developing countries' play an increasingly prominent role in the development, production and use of emerging technologies. This validates the claim of the world risk society thesis that countries around the world are now confronted with the risks of emerging technologies. Little is known, however, about the way developing countries deal with the potential risks of emerging technologies. Starting from the observation that the risk colonization of nanotechnology in developing countries cannot be taken for granted, this article draws upon the relational theory of risk in order to investigate how nanotechnology became understood as an object of risk in South Africa and India. The article shows that nanotechnology was constituted as an object of risk in rather different ways in India and South Africa, demonstrating that the spread of risk discourses -and the emergence of a world risk society -cannot be understood without attending to the local context. The article shows that way risk is understood and dealt with changes as risk discourses travel around the world, giving many different faces to the world risk society.

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A theory of risk colonization: The spiralling regulatory logics of societal and institutional risk

Cited by 291 publications

References 36 publications

Risk and Human Rights in UK Prison Governance

Risk and Human Rights in UK Prison Governance

Flooding and the framing of risk in British broadsheets, 1985–2010

Travelling risks: How did nanotechnology become a risk in India and South Africa?

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