The metaphorical construction of risk: from cultural schismogenesis to cultural humility

Scott Williams

Chapter 7 in Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, 2024, pp 112-136 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Building from the limitations of existing approaches to international law, there is a need for exploring and examining the shift from interconnected to interactional properties of conceptual systems. This requires exploring the shift from the transactional objectification of individuals and organisations (and states) to an ecological (or relational) understanding of individuals and organisations (and states) as stochastically interacting parts of the whole of life, as well as a shift from root metaphors of control, quantification and competition to exploration, mutual learning and compassion. This chapter explores how this can apply to international law within the constantly shifting and dynamically adaptive conditions of the systems in which the construction and implementation of international law is intervening.

Keywords: Development Studies; Environment; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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