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

In: Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law

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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.

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  • Scott Williams, 2024. "The metaphorical construction of risk: from cultural schismogenesis to cultural humility," Chapters, in: Marie Aronsson-Storrier & Susan C. Breau (ed.), Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, chapter 7, pages 112-136, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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