Date of Award
2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Sociology
Abstract
Risk emplacement is a way we might better understand how power relations are built into people's everyday lives, and thus how they may be contested. Though previous research has documented that built form can regulate and express ideology, little attention has been paid to how buildings are employed and utilized to manage risk. In this paper, I argue that differences in ideas about risk and the built form of two residential women's clubs in Progressive Era Chicago can be explained by emplaced risk ideologies. Risk ideologies are sets of ideas about danger, and risk emplacement is a practice that links risks to places, and places to risks. The result of risk emplacement is that places become substitutes for the putative danger associated with them.
Recommended Citation
Bartram, Robin, "Emplacing Ideologies of Risk and the Use of the Built Environment in Two Women's Residential Clubs in Turn of the 20th Century Chicago" (2011). Master's Theses. 545.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/545
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Copyright Statement
Copyright © 2011 Robin Bartram
