Natures of risk: Capital, rule, and production of difference

Wasted Life: Labour, Liveliness, and the Production of Value

“…The CDUT risk calculation concluded that despite noted difficulties with determining the statistical significance of predicted cancer levels for small populations (indeed, they suggested that the statistical power of the calculations was too low to be instructive) the cancers experienced in the group of 35 ore carriers were unlikely to have been caused by exposure to ionizing radiation (see Stanley [] for a more extensive analysis of SCENES’ analysis). Specifically, SCENES concluded that neither the risk of cancer nor the occurrence of radiation‐induced cancers in the population were significantly different from those that occur in “ any other population ” (2005:section 5‐1, emphasis added).…”

“…The CDUT was formed in the wake of efforts made in the late 1990s by the Sahtu Dene of Deline First Nation to have their concerns about cancer death and contamination addressed by the federal government—efforts that publicly called into question the highly racialized, and for the most part invisible, geographical configurations that constitute the Canadian nuclear project (Stanley ). The Table, funded and supported institutionally by the federal government, was a joint Deline–government process mandated to identify and recommend measures to address concerns raised by the Dene about the impacts of the Port Radium mine and related transportation activities, and included an analytical assessment of the human and ecological effects of the uranium economy.…”

“…In the second part of the essay I examine aspects of the CDUT‐driven risk calculation conducted by SCENES Ltd on behalf of the federal government. Risk calculation as a set of techniques was pivotal in adjudicating between the very public Dene allegations of harmful contamination and the claims of industry and government that this concern was unfounded (Stanley ). It was thus a powerful epistemic moment for settling the in/visibility of the racialized economic terrain of uranium production.…”

On the way to being middle class

“…Such instrumentalization then permits accumulation to proceed without it having to take into consideration all of the negative impacts it brings about. More significantly, it illustrates that only capitalist production is capable of making these conditions better in the long run (Stanley 2012).…”

What we have lost and cannot become: societal outcomes of coastal erosion in southern Belize

“…Risk and the methods by which it is assessed and managed are manifold but inform responses and policies to events and processes (such as coastal erosion and sea-level rise), and can therefore be seen as a governing technique (Dean 1998, O'Brien et al 2007, Stanley 2013. The rationale for our study originates from the prevailing focus on biophysical risks and monetary losses in relation to current and anticipated processes of coastal change in which little weight has been given to how these changes are experienced at the local level.…”