La polysémie temporelle du risque

The concept of risk no longer evokes an occasional threat, but rather a permanent state in which society deals with the present by referring to the future and to rational probability theory. In a risk society the past loses its détérmining power, the future takes its place. In its wider application,...

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Main Author: Adelina Miranda
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Language:fra
Published: ADR Temporalités 2004-01-01
Series:Temporalités
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/542
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description The concept of risk no longer evokes an occasional threat, but rather a permanent state in which society deals with the present by referring to the future and to rational probability theory. In a risk society the past loses its détérmining power, the future takes its place. In its wider application, this temporal perspective opens up a series of questions concerning the concept of risk as applied to traditional societies, whose ties to the past are often strong. The region of Naples provides an example through which we can examine the cultural dynamics between the concept of danger, transmitted both by oral and written traditions, and the concept of risk, used by scientists. The current notion of « living with risk » has influenced the way Neapolitan culture perceives its own past, one of recurring volcanic éruptions. Nevertheless the fact that the inhabitants formulate their experience through this new global interpretative category, has not eliminated the relationship they maintain with « their risk » in their daily lives.
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La polysémie temporelle du risque
Temporalités
memory
risk
Vesuvius
vulcanology
destructive temporality
crisis of presence
title La polysémie temporelle du risque
title_full La polysémie temporelle du risque
title_fullStr La polysémie temporelle du risque
title_full_unstemmed La polysémie temporelle du risque
title_short La polysémie temporelle du risque
title_sort la polysemie temporelle du risque
topic memory
risk
Vesuvius
vulcanology
destructive temporality
crisis of presence
url https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/542
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