Conclusions—A New Phenomenology of Risk and Uncertainty
摘要
The concluding chapter integrates the book’s empirical, theoretical, and phenomenological strands to propose a new framework for understanding risk as a triadic interplay of rational, non-rational, and in-between modes of reasoning. It argues that people rarely rely on a single mode. Instead, they combine objectified evidence, embodied experience, and imaginaries of the future to make decisions in the face of uncertainty. Drawing on New Phenomenology, the chapter conceptualizes sense-making of risk as a circular movement between embodied immediacy and reflexive distancing, shaped by atmospheres, biography, structural inequalities, and social imaginaries. This model reveals why abstract risk knowledge must be anchored in subjective experience (subjectivation) to become meaningful, and why all modes are problematic when detached from one another, whether through over-rationalization, ideological closure, or charismatic enchantment. The chapter concludes that a neo-phenomenologically grounded sociology of risk and uncertainty can better explain contemporary crises and support more humane, situated, and reflexive forms of engagement with uncertain futures.