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Author: | Collier, S.J. |
Title: | Enacting catastrophe: preparedness, insurance, budgetary rationalization |
Journal: | Economy and Society
2008 : MAY, VOL. 37:2, p. 224-250 |
Index terms: | insurance risk terrorism |
Freeterms: | catastrophe enacting |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Enactment is studied here as significant new form of knowledge about collective life that differs fundamentally from familiar forms of "social" knowledge. The emergence of enactment is traced through a series of domains where the problem of estimating the likelihood and consequence of potentially catastrophic future events has been made an explicit object of expert reflection: response to a possible nuclear attack in US civil defence planning in the late 1940s; the emergence of natural hazard modelling in 1960s and 1970s; and the emergence today of terrorism risk assessment and its proposed application to federal budgetary distributions. |
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