Let's (not) talk about risk: The competitive nature of risk vocabulary

Julie Mayer (julie.mayer@univ-rennes.fr)
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Julie Mayer: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: his article examines how risk vocabulary is socially constructed and reconfigured through communications after a crisis. We adopt a vocabulary perspective to study the communications that arose in France after the Rana Plaza's industrial accident, from 2013 to 2016. Findings reveal that risk vocabulary results from a competitive process of requalification of causes and consequences. Our results suggest that new vocabulary structures emerge from a "double-loop" enactment of risk. This study also challenges existing literature by suggesting that change in dominant discourses of risk is more likely to happen by not directly talking about risk.

Keywords: Vocabulaire; Crises; Communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-07
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Published in EGOS, 32d colloquium, Jul 2016, Naples, Italy

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