Ordinary Extraordinary: The Anthropology of Risk, Limits and Exposure
6-7 November 2014
Department of Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
Workshop Programme
Thursday 6th November 2014
8:30 – 9:00 Coffee/Tea
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome: Welcome from the organisers
9:15 – 10:05 Keynote 1: Stephen Lyng (Carthage College) The New Subjectivity of Risk
10:10 – 12:05
COMMUNITIES EXPOSED AND PRECARIOUS
Marie Kolling (University of Copenhagen)
From slum to social housing: New homes, new problems and uncertainties in Recife, Northeast Brazil
Julie Shackleford (UCL)
Changing trajectories: Reflections on homes, homeland, and heritage in crisis Syria
Giovanni Gugg (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Ordinary life in the shadow of Vesuvius: Surviving the announced catastrophe
Hannah Swee (UCL)
Keeping disasters under control: Anticipating and predicting cyclones in the Australian Tropics
Discussant: Helene Joffe (UCL)
12:05 – 13:00 Lunch
13:05 – 14:35
Cathryn Townsend (UCL)
Sliding into inequality: Crisis and resilience among Baka hunter-gatherers
David Jeevendrampillai (UCL)
Being local: It’s what Lefi would have wanted (IWLWHW).
Carol Balthazar (UCL)
The market tsunami: Cultural and natural challenges in an economically deprived English seaside town
Discussant: Karen Henwood (Cardiff University)
14:35 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:05 – 16:35
RISK MANAGEMENT: COMMUNITY, INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
Mei L. Trueba (University of Leeds)
‘Looking at risk with two eyes’ Plural and shifting rationalities of risk and risk management amongst
Bolivian cooperative miners
Iben Karlsen (University of Copenhagen)
Between standardization and expertise: Risk and accident prevention in a Danish wind turbine
production factory
Alessandro Blasimme (INSERM)
Play at your own risk: new biomedicine and the socio-technical transformation of experimental risk
Discussant: Åsa Boholm (University of Gothenburg)
Dinner 18:00
Friday 7th November 2014
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee/Tea
9:00 – 9:50 Keynote 2: Åsa Boholm (University of Gothenburg) Risk and Anthropology
9:55 – 11:50
PRIVATE EXPOSURE: BODY, GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Jonathan Skinner (University of Roehampton)
“At the risk of embarrassment”: Convention, revolution and imagination on the exposed dance floor
Matthew Leyshon-McGuire (University of Cambridge)
The politics and risks of visibility: The 'coming out' of sexual minorities in South Korea
Janine Su (UCL)
Connecting mobility and manhood in a Turkish urban centre
Victoria Robinson (University of Sheffield)
Re-conceptualising sporting masculinities, the everyday and risk
Discussant: Sophie Day (Goldsmiths, University of London)
11:50-12:45 Lunch
12:50-14:20
VOLUNTARY RISK TAKING AND EDGEWORK
Ellen Potts (UCL)
Sailing into the storm: Negotiating the vicissitudes of life in the UK climate justice movement
Gülin Kayhan (Waseda University)
Deep Play in Whale Wars: Commodified Edgework at the End of the Social
Dimitra Kofti (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
The ‘ungrateful’ steel work: Risk, danger and uncertainty in a Bulgarian industrial town
Discussant: Allen Abramson (UCL)
14:20 – 15:50
Matthew Bunn (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Echoing Improvisation: balancing risk and intensity in the practice of alpine climbing
Jason Pine (State University of New York)
Methlabs and the work of the securitized risk-taker
Philipp Schröder (Humboldt University of Berlin)
‘No risk, no champagne’ – skills, success and the ‘culture of decision-taking’ among post-Soviet
businessmen from Kyrgyzstan
Discussant: Stephen Lyng (Carthage College)
15:50 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:10 Guest speaker: Lord Giddens Living in the high opportunity, high risk society
17:10-18:00 Discussion and closing remarks