At the STEPS Centre Symposium on the Politics of Uncertainty, Susan Erikson (Simon Fraser) and Rebecca Elliott (LSE) presented fascinating cases for the insurance theme, which was part of the…
Whose risk? Whose responsibility? The politics and financialisation of uncertainty
Nepal: resilience, disasters and development
The doyen among Nepal’s ethnographers, the Janku-blessed Bihari Krishna Shrestha had a valid point. Since his phone had gone dead after the Big Earthquake of 25th April, I had gone…
From Uncertainty in India to low carbon in Kenya: Our autumn newsletter is out now
Our autumn 2013 newsletter gives a snapshot of a few of the areas we are researching right now. A new briefing looks at how people deal with uncertainty about climate, disease or natural disasters in…