All Outputs (5)

Constructing responsibilities for risk: negotiating citizen-state relationships (2007)
Journal Article
Bickerstaff, K., Simmons, P., & Pidgeon, N. (2007). Constructing responsibilities for risk: negotiating citizen-state relationships. Environment and Planning A, 40(6), 1312-1330. https://doi.org/10.1068/a39150

The paper examines the ways in which citizens negotiate responsibility in relation to various environmental and technological risks. It focuses on the role of agency and the way that this figures in constructions of relations of responsibility betwee... Read More about Constructing responsibilities for risk: negotiating citizen-state relationships.

Situating local experience of risk: Peripherality, marginality and place identity in the UK foot and mouth disease crisis (2006)
Journal Article
Bickerstaff, K., Simmons, P., & Pidgeon, N. (2006). Situating local experience of risk: Peripherality, marginality and place identity in the UK foot and mouth disease crisis. Geoforum, 37(5), 844-858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.11.004

Research into exposure to, and experience of, environmental risk that has an explicitly spatial focus can be broadly differentiated into two strands. The first strand focuses on the responses of communities of exposure (or the threat of exposure) to... Read More about Situating local experience of risk: Peripherality, marginality and place identity in the UK foot and mouth disease crisis.

The right tool for the job? Modeling, spatial relationships, and styles of scientific practice in the UK foot and mouth crisis (2004)
Journal Article
Bickerstaff, K., & Simmons, P. (2004). The right tool for the job? Modeling, spatial relationships, and styles of scientific practice in the UK foot and mouth crisis. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22(3), 393-412. https://doi.org/10.1068/d344t

In this paper we explore the expert controversy over the management of a major rural risk issue, the foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak that affected the United Kingdom in 2001, and in particular the role of predictive epidemiological modeling in... Read More about The right tool for the job? Modeling, spatial relationships, and styles of scientific practice in the UK foot and mouth crisis.

The place(s) of matter: matter out of place - public understandings of air pollution (2003)
Journal Article
Bickerstaff, K., & Walker, G. (2003). The place(s) of matter: matter out of place - public understandings of air pollution. Progress in Human Geography, 27(1), 45-67. https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132503ph412oa

This article reflects on the key findings and insights offered by recent work on public understandings of air pollution, which has begun to adopt some of the concepts and methodologies associated with social constructionism. We begin with a brief dis... Read More about The place(s) of matter: matter out of place - public understandings of air pollution.

Risk, responsibility, and blame: analysing vocabularies of motive in air pollution(ing) discourses (2002)
Journal Article
Bickerstaff, K., & Walker, G. (2002). Risk, responsibility, and blame: analysing vocabularies of motive in air pollution(ing) discourses. Environment and Planning A, 34(12), 2175-2192. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3521

In this paper we analyse the reasonings that people deploy in explaining and rationalising their behaviour in relation to the collective environmental and health-risk problem of urban air quality. We draw on an empirical study of public perceptions o... Read More about Risk, responsibility, and blame: analysing vocabularies of motive in air pollution(ing) discourses.