Call for Chapter Proposals: “Environment As a Short Circuit in the Knowledge Production System” – Extension of deadline.

If you are interested in contributing to this edited volume, the deadline has been extended. New deadline: Submit your proposal (500-word max.), and biography (150-word max.) to the editor Dr. Fabio D’Andrea (fabio.dandrea@unipg.it) by January 10, 2024. Proposal acceptance will be notified by January 31, 2024.Contributors whose abstracts get selected will receive the Vernon Press …

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Collection: Sociology of Vaccines

Vaccination has long been a central tool in the management of infectious disease – though it is not without associated controversy and resistance. The COVID-19 pandemic has served to enhance and reconstitute debates surrounding vaccination. This Collection aims to provide a sociological analysis of the breadth of social and cultural issues surrounding vaccination. The scope …

Journal of Risk Research (JRR) on Intersectional Analysis of risk

Will open soon… a call for a special issue of Journal of Risk Research (JRR) on Intersectional Analysis of risk, edited by Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson and Susanna Öhman. The call invites insights and viewpoints from scholars regarding intersectional analyses of risks associated with inequality on an individual, group or community level, including analyses of individual perception and behaviour, policy, …

Health, Risk & Society

Difficult dialogues about death: applying risk orders theory to analyse chaplains’ provision of end-of-life care

Understandings of risk permeate end-of-life (EOL) care contexts. In addition to the risk of bodily death, patients, family and healthcare providers face spiritual and communication risks during EOL care. The Western biomedical healthcare model is an objectivist, curative framework focusing on fixing the body; this cultural notion limits communication regarding physical illness. Existing work argues …