Maidens at risk: 'date rape drugs' and the formation of hybrid risk knowledges

The ‘risk gradient’ in policy on children of drug and alcohol users: Framing young people as risky

“…Risk has displaced deviance as the primary discursive mode of liberal governance in Western societies (Moore and Valverde, 2000), attaching to drug and alcohol problems in terms of the location of riskinessin the substance (illicit drugs) or the person (alcohol). Discussing personal problems in terms of risks gives the appearance of avoiding any moral judgements or overtones about the actions of our research subjects, whilst still doing the work of regulating behaviour and the practices of the self.…”

The clinical governance of the soul: ‘deep management’ and the self-regulating subject in integrated community mental health teams

“…Following transcription, the corpus of material was examined via a close-reading by the two authors. Previously, the standard practice amongst scholars writing in the field of governmentality studies has been to read off the practices of government from the narratives of an organisation or social sphere in a fairly straightforward fashion (Moore & Valverde, 2000;Novas & Rose, 2000). However, our attempt here to identify the kind of professional identity and self-management process encouraged in this organisation deserves a more nuanced and rigorous methodology, and a theorisation of how we may link data from the participants with more governmental processes of organisational and self-regulation.…”

Risk and panic in late modernity: implications of the converging sites of social anxiety

“…For as Furedi (1997: 147-68) argues, set against the backdrop of a heightened sense of risk consciousness, 'the new etiquette' of caution, fear and danger has distanced itself from judgments about what is morally proper or acceptable, becoming transposed into discourses of safety, security and communal living. And yet, although the utilization of a risk calculus has arisen to transform many social problems into a set of risks and dangers, post-moral techniques and discourses of risk-management have ended up doing old moral regulation work (Moore and Valverde 2000). To put this succinctly, as anxieties endemic to the risk society converge with anxieties contained at the level of community, we should expect a proliferation of moral panics as an ordering practice in late modernity.…”