The Productive Life of Risk
The Productive Life of Risk
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风险的生产生活
DOI：
10.1525/can.2004.19.3.365
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Caitlin Zaloom
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作者：
Caitlin Zaloom
当代社会理论家通常对风险持负面看法。他们把重点放在灾害和危险上，认为风险是计算和避免的对象。但如果我们在另一种背景下观察风险，我们会对现代生活中的风险有更深的理解。期货市场是积极冒险的典范。这篇文章通过对交易大厅的广泛实地考察，展示了一个高度现代化的机构如何创造出大批冒险专家，并探索了积极参与风险管理的方法，以组织当代市场和打造经济参与者。金融交易所是资本主义生产的熔炉。在芝加哥期货交易所，金融投机者围绕风险构建他们的行为和塑造自己；围绕风险组织的游戏影响着市场生活的社会和空间动态。
Contemporary social theorists usually conceive of risk negatively. Focusing on disasters and hazards, they see risk as an object of calculation and avoidance. But we gain a deeper understanding of risk in modern life if we observe it in another setting. Futures markets are exemplary sites of aggressive risk taking. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork on trading floors, this article shows how a high modern institution creates populations of risk-taking specialists, and explores the ways that engagements with risk actively organize contemporary markets and forge economic actors. Financial exchanges are crucibles of capitalist production. At the Chicago Board of Trade, financial speculators structure their conduct and shape themselves around risk; and games organized around risk influence the social and spatial dynamics of market life.