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JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 290-307Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2016.1200659
Keywords
disaster; embodied uncertainty; emergency management; knowledge co-production; risk interpretation
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- International Social Science Council (ISSC)
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) in the UK under the Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards programme
- Australian Research Council [FL0992397, DE150100242]
- Foundation for Research Science & Technology NZ S&T Postdoctoral Fellowship [MAUX0910]
- NZ's Earthquake Commission (EQC)
- GNS Science
- Massey University
- Dutch Knowledge for Climate programme
- NERC [NE/L000709/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Australian Research Council [DE150100242] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
- New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) [MAUX0910] Funding Source: New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE)
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/L000709/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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In this paper, we examine the concept of embodied uncertainty by exploring multiple dimensions of uncertainty in the context of risks associated with extreme natural hazards. We highlight a need for greater recognition, particularly by disaster management and response agencies, of uncertainty as a subjective experience for those living at risk. Embodied uncertainty is distinguished from objective uncertainty by the nature of its internalisation at the individual level, where it is subjective, felt and directly experienced. This approach provides a conceptual pathway that sharpens knowledge of the processes that shape how individuals and communities interpret and contextualise risk. The ways in which individual characteristics, social identities and lived experiences shape interpretations of risk are explored by considering embodied uncertainty in four contexts: social identities and trauma, the co-production of knowledge, institutional structures and policy and long-term lived experiences. We conclude by outlining the opportunities that this approach presents, and provide recommendations for further research on how the concept of embodied uncertainty can aid decision-making and the management of risks in the context of extreme natural hazards.
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