Analytics for local knowledge: exploring a community’s experience of risk

Raul P. Lejano and Daniel Stokols

Journal of Risk Research, 2021, vol. 24, issue 7, 833-852

Abstract: In privileging expert risk assessments, we may be failing to recognize the authenticity of a community’s actual experience of risk. We should remind ourselves that expert measures are always only partial, often surrogate, estimates of such experience and, at times, may fail to capture the actual nature of risk. There is a need for modes of analysis that allow better description of risk as experienced by community. We develop and test the methods for exploring hitherto delegitimized modes of knowing risk. In this exploratory research, narrative-linguistic analysis and cognitive mapping were used to evaluate the experience of residents near a large, municipal landfill. Text was analyzed, in part using speech-act theory. These methods aspire to thick description, as opposed experts' thin description of risk, and add to the analytical tools at our disposal.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2018.1476902

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