Modes of uncertainty : anthropological cases / Limor Samimian-Darash, Paul Rabinow.

Other author Samimian-Darash, Limor.
Other author Rabinow, Paul.
Format Book
PublicationChicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Descriptionvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Risk--Sociological aspects.
Uncertainty--Social aspects.
Uncertainty--Economic aspects.

Contents Uncertainty makes us free : insurance and liberal rationality / Pat O'Malley -- The "cool" organization man : incorporating uncertainty from jazz music into the business world / Eitan Wilf -- The gaming of chance : online poker software and the potentialization of uncertainty / Nathasha Dow Schüll -- Policing uncertainty : on suspicious activity reporting / Meg Stalcup -- Guantánamo's Catch-22 : the uncertain interrogation subject / Rebecca Lemov -- Global humanitarian interventions : managing uncertain trajectories of Cambodian mental health / Carol A. Kidron -- The malicious and the uncertain : biosecurity, self-justification, and the arts of living / Gaymon Bennett -- What is a horizon? Navigating thresholds in climate change uncertainty / Adriana Petryna -- Sentinel devices : managing uncertainty in species barrier zones / Frédéric Keck -- Spaces of uncertainty : governing urban environmental hazards / Austin Zeiderman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-238) and index.
LCCN 2014040552
ISBN9780226257075 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN022625707X (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780226257105 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN022625710X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN(e-book)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HM1101 .M635 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold