General theoretical resources on making sense of uncertainty

Adam, B. and C. Groves (2007). Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics. Leiden, Brill.

Adam, B. and C. Groves (2011). “Futures Tended: Care and Future-Oriented Responsibility.” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 31(1): 17-27.

Barbrook, R. (2007). Imaginary futures: from thinking machines to the global village. London, Pluto Books.

Douglas, M. and A. Wildavsky (1982). Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Groves, C. (2010). Living in Uncertainty: Anthropogenic Global Warming and the Limits of ‘Risk Thinking’. Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination. S. Skrimshire. London, Continuum: 107-128.

Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University Press.

Groves, C. (2011). “The Political Imaginary of Care: Generic versus Singular Futures.” Journal of International Political Theory 7(2): 165-189.

Haller, S. F. (2002). Apocalypse Soon?: Wagering on Warnings of Global Catastrophe. Montreal, MQUP.

Jackson, M. (1989). Paths toward a clearing: Radical empiricism and ethnographic inquiry. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press.

Jonas, H. (1984). The imperative of responsibility: in search of an ethics for the technological age. Chicago ; London, University of Chicago Press.

Marris, P. (1996). The politics of uncertainty: attachment in private and public life. London; New York, Routledge.

Attachment and narratives of care

Miller, D. (2009). The Comfort of Things. London, Polity.

Nussbaum, M. C. (2001). Upheavals of thought: the intelligence of emotions. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Verbeek, P. P. (2011). Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Place-making, risk and uncertainty

Broto, V. C., et al. (2010). “Stigma and Attachment: Performance of Identity in an Environmentally Degraded Place.” Society & Natural Resources 23(10): 952-968.

Fullilove, M. T. (2004). Root shock: how tearing up city neighborhoods hurts America, and what we can do about it. Ballantine.

Gabrielson, T. and K. Parady (2010). “Corporeal citizenship: rethinking green citizenship through the body.” Environmental Politics 19(3): 374-391.

Heise, U. K. (2008). Sense of place and sense of planet: the environmental imagination of the global. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Ingold, T. (1993). “The Temporality of the Landscape.” World Archaeology 25(2): 152-174.

Irwin, A. and P. Simmons (1999). “Faulty environments and risk reasoning: the local understanding of industrial hazards.” Environment and Planning A 31: 1311-1326.

O’Neill, J., A. Holland, et al. (2008). Environmental values. London, Routledge.

Read, J. (2011). “The production of subjectivity: from transindividuality to the commons.” New Formations 70: 113-131.

Sjölander-Lindqvist, A. (2004). “The effects of environmental uncertainty on farmers’ sense of locality and futurity: a Swedish case study.” Journal of Risk Research 7(2): 185-197.

Tilley, C. (1994). A phenomenology of landscape: places, paths and monuments. Oxford; Providence, RI, Berg Publishers.

Tuan, Y.-F. (2007). Space and place: the perspective of experience. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.

Twigger-Ross, C. L. and D. L. Uzzell (1996). “Place and identity processes.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 16(3): 205-220.

Walkerdine, V. (2010). “Communal Beingness and Affect: An Exploration of Trauma in an Ex-industrial Community.” Body & Society 16(1): 91-116.

Interpretive risk research – commentaries and reviews, conceptual development for policy

Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. (2012). Risk and Identity Futures.  Commissioned UK Government Report, Foresight Future of Identities Project: DR18 http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/foresight/docs/identity/13-519-identity-and-change-through-a%20risk-lens.pdf

Pidgeon, N., Simmons, P. and Henwood, K.L. (2006) “Environment, technology and risk”. In P. Taylor Gooby (ed) Perspectives in Risk Research Oxford: OUP.

Tulloch, J.  Lupton, D.  (2003)  Risk and Everyday Life Sage: London.

Examples of published empirical studies

Erikson, K. (1976). Everything in its path: destruction of community in the Buffalo Creek flood New York, Simon and Schuster

Erikson, K. (1995). A new species of trouble: the human experience of modern disasters. New York, W. W. Norton.

Masco, J. (2006) The Nuclear Borderland: The Manhattan project in post cold war New Mexico Princeton University Press

Shirani, F., Henwood, K., Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. (2013) “Disconnected Futures: Exploring notions of ethical responsibility in energy practices”, Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 18:4, 455-468.

Parkhill, K., Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N. and Simmons, P. (2011) “Laughing it off: Humour, affect and emotion work in communities living with nuclear risk”, British Journal of Sociology, 62 (2) 324-346.

Parkhill, K.A., Pidgeon, N.F., Henwood, K.L., Simmons, P. and Venables, D. (2010). “From the familiar to the extraordinary: local residents’ perceptions of risk when living with nuclear power in the UK.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS 35, 39-58.

Henwood, K.L. and Pidgeon, N.F. (2001). “Talk about forests, woods and trees : Threat of urbanization, stability, and biodiversity”. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21, 125-147.

Simmons, P. and G. Walker (2004). Living with technological risk: industrial encroachment on sense of place. Facility siting: risk, power and identity in land use planning. Å. Boholm and R. E. Löfstedt. London; Sterling VA, Earthscan: 90-106.

Sims, R., et al. (2009). “When a “Home” Becomes a “House”: Care and Caring in the Flood Recovery Process.” Space and Culture 12(3): 303-316

Methodological Commentaries

Henwood, Karen; Pidgeon, Nick; Parkhill, Karen & Simmons, Peter (2010). Researching Risk: Narrative, Biography, Subjectivity [43 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum:Qualitative Social Research, 11(1), Art. 20. Reprinted in Historical Social Research, 2011, 36 (4).

Henwood, K.L., Pidgeon, N.F., Sarre, S., Simmons, P. and Smith, N. (2008). “Risk, framing and everyday life: methodological and ethical reflections from three sociocultural projects.” Health, Risk and Society, 10, 421-438.

Henwood, K.L. (2008). “Qualitative research, reflexivity and living with risk: Valuing and practicing epistemic reflexivity and centring marginality.” Qualitative Research in Psychology, 5(1) 45-55.

Lather, P. (1993) “Fertile obsession: Validity after poststructuctalism.” The Sociological Quarterly, 34 (4), 673-693.

Aesthetics, Performance and Ecology

Arons. W and T.J. May (2012) Readings in Performance and Ecology, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Bottoms S, A Franks and P. Kramer, eds (2012) ‘On Ecology’, Performance Research, 17: 4

Bottoms S and M Goulish, eds (2007) Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island, London: Routledge.

Chamberlain, F, C Lavery and R Yarrow (2012) ‘Steps to an Ecology of Performance’, University of Bucharest Review, 14:1, 1-37.

Chaudhuri, U  (1994) “’There Must Be a Lot of Fish in that Lake’: Toward an Ecological Theater”. Theater 25: 23: 31

Guattari, F (2008) The Three Ecologies. London and New York: Continuum.

Haraway, D (2008) When Species Meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota

Heddon, D and S Mackey, eds ( 2012) Research in Drama Education: Environmentalism. 17.2

Heim, W (2012) ‘Can a place learn?’, On Ecology, Performance Research, 17:4, 120-7

Heim, W (2012) ‘Epilogue: Thinking Forward’ in Readings in Performance and Ecology, eds W Arons and T. J, May, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 211-6.

Heim, W. (2003). ‘Slow Activism. Homeland, love and the lightbulb’ in Szerszynski, B., Heim, W.,Waterton, C., Nature Performed. Environment, Culture and Performance. Oxford: Blackwell.

Rancière, J  (2006) The Politics of Aesthetics, London: Continuum

Lavery C (2013) ‘The Ecology of the Image’, French Cultural Studies, 24: 3, 264-78

Lavery C and S Whitehead (2012) ‘Bringing it all back Home: Towards an Ecology of Place’, On Ecology, Performance Research, 111-9.

Marranca, B (1996) Ecologies of Theatre: Essays at the Century Turning. Baltimore:

John Hopkins Press

Kershaw B (2009) Theatre and Ecology: Environments and Performance Events. Cambridge: CUP.

Stewart, N and G Giannachi, eds (2005)  Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts. Berne: Peter Lang

Szerszynski, B., Heim, W. and Waterton, C. (2003). Nature Performed. Environment, Culture and Performance. Oxford: Blackwell.

Williams, David (2010) Underworld, Underground, Underhistory, Fieldworks, Performance Research, 15: 4, 131-40

Whitehead, S (2006) Walking to Work, Gwaith Cerdydd: Shoeless Publication