risk culture

is a culture that embraces all kinds of residual and marginal forms of sense-making practices whereas risk society would always entail a sense of institutional domination.

Lash points out that 'whereas risk society would always entail a sense of institutional domination (hence 'society'), risk culture embraces all kinds of residual and marginal forms of sense-making practices' (adams et. al. 5).

is a less coherent ensemble than risk society, informed by uncertainty, contingency, complexity, and turbulence.

less coherent ensemble of sensibilities and practices informed by uncertainty, contingency, complexity, and turbulence' (Giddens 1999: ')

is a reasonable (though not rationalist) reflexive community which is constructed in the context of institutional uncertainty and risk.

risk cultures are reasonable (though not rationalist) and reflexive communities: communities constructed in the context of institutional uncertaintly of risk, and which may work to identify environmental and other risks. These are communities of risk sub-politics' (49).

is different from one culture to the next.

As a heuristic device, a label, 'risk culture' enables the discursive fixture of the fluidity of signification for the time being. The question is thus not what risk culture is, but what it does' (van Loon 2000:14).

Their governing figurations are not rules but symbols:

is grounded in the open-ended nature of aesthetic judgments.

argues that the open-ended nature of aesthetic judement is integral to the mentality, to the habitus, the background assumptions of the risk culture'

is grounded in substantive values rather than in procedural norms.

Their media are not procedural norms but substantive values.

is grounded in the assumptiononof an indeterminate disordering, less coherent ensemble of sensibilities and practices..

Risk cultures, in contrast, presume not a determinate ordering, but a reflexive or indeterminate disordering.

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