Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster
Global Futures: Uncertainty, Displacement, Security
Risk Studies Reading List: General Theories and Introduction to Risk Studies
Beck, U. (1992). Risk society: Towards a new modernity. London: SAGE Publications.
Berstein, P. (1998). Against the gods: The remarkable story of risk. New York: Wiley.
David, F. N. (1962). Games, gods and gambling: The origin and history of probability and statistical ideas from the earliest times to the Newtonian era. New York: Dover Publications.
Denney, D. (2005). Risk and society. London: SAGE Publications.
Douglas, M. (1992). Risk and blame: Essays in cultural theory. London: Routledge.
Ericson, D., & Doyle, A. (Eds.). (2003). Risk and morality. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Gaspar, M. (2020). A pre-modern cultural history of risk: Imagining the future. New York: Routledge.
Ghosh, B., & Sarkar, B. (Eds.). (2020). The Routledge companion to media and risk. New York: Routledge.
Klüppelberg, C., Straub D., & Welpe I. M. (Eds.). (2014). Risk: A multidisciplinary introduction. New York: Springer International Publishing.
Krimsky, S., & Golding, D. (Eds.). (1992). Social theories of risk. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Luhmann, Niklaus. (1993). Risk: A sociological theory. Berlin, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Lupton, D. (ed.). (1999). Risk and sociocultural theory: New directions and perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pidgeon, N., Kasperson, R. E., & Slovic, P. (Eds.). (2003). The social amplification of risk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reith, Gerda. (1999). The age of chance: Gambling and western culture. London: Routledge.
Slovic, P. (1987). Perception of risk. Science, 236(4799), 280-285.
