Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration

Serostatus, risk and responsibility

Rises in new HIV infections and the return of the hyper-epidemics of sexually transmissible infections have occurred among gay men in North America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand. If you look beneath the surface, discourses of failed responsibility and blame are a common reaction among gay men, educators, doctors and governments. When HIV first spread among gay communities in the la...

Responsibility Modelling for Risk Analysis

This paper proposes a novel approach to systems modelling based on responsibilities. The approach is designed to help users identify and analyse the hazards and associated risks that can arise in complex socio-technical systems that span organisational boundaries. Through a case study this paper shows how the technique can identify the vulnerabilities that may arise because human, organisationa...

Responsibility, Guilt and Decision under Risk 1

The authors would like to thank Vittorio Girotto for his helpful comments on this preliminary study.

Financial Responsibility . a Temporal Risk ?

Recent years have been characterized by an economic and financial crisis of global proportions and while the many analyses undertaken are largely able to identify its origins and causes (see, for example, Lewis, 2011), it seems much of the blame lies with the markets. Meanwhile, present austerity and credit control policies are arguably proving to be counterproductive increasing unemployment an...

Risk and Responsibility In the GMO Discourse