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This study compares the regulation of two emerging technologies, the CRISPR genome‐editing system and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) in the United States. The study draws on 33 in‐depth interviews with innovation and governance experts to study the relationship between their regulatory environments and developing beliefs about these technologies. Using sociotechnical imaginaries as a framework, we explore how social actors envision technologically driven futures and the social order that enables them. These imaginaries are essential to emerging technologies, where experts build a framework of potentialities for innovation still underway. While scholarship has documented how sociotechnical imaginaries arise among policymakers, groups of scientists, state and local stakeholders, and public actors in different countries, less has been said about how regulatory organizations and their actors shape expectations around technologies that are in the early and middle stages of development. This article finds that regulatory institutions shape emerging imaginaries along three related axes: the distribution of authority, technological novelty, and risk. Interviewees negotiate these three contingencies differently based on relevant extant regulatory structures and ideologies, resulting in distinct imaginaries around each technology. CRISPR actors envision genome editing as largely diminishing biomedical harm and eventually suitable for health markets, while CAV actors diverge on whether self‐driving cars alleviate or exacerbate risk and how they may enter roads. That organizational structures and practices of regulation inform broadly held sociotechnical imaginaries bears significance for studies of innovation trajectories, suggesting regulators can take an active role in shaping how risks and benefits of emerging technology are defined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article offers a comparative ethnographic examination of working-class Latina and middle-class white girls' narratives of aspiration and expressions of self-cultivation in early twenty-first-century Silicon Valley, USA. I argue that such girls' subject-making statements of aspiration and gendered practices of self-cultivation reflect their emotively charged negotiations of race and class differentiated ideals of feminine success, their experience of school and community spaces inscribed by hierarchies of race, class, and gender, and shifting political-economic circumstances. Moreover, I maintain that such statements and practices reveal girls' engagements with an open-ended gendered dynamic of responsibilization. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article aims to estimate the Equity Risk Premium in Latin America from the performance of the most representative countries in the region: Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia. The estimate was made by calculating the difference of average historical returns of stocks and the past performance of fixed income for a period of time ranging from 1987 to 2013. It was found as a result of the study an Equity Risk Premium with arithmetic mean of 16,89% and the geometric mean of 8,79% with respect to the Treasury Bonds; and a Equity Risk Premium with arithmetic mean of 18,52% and the geometric mean of 10,37% with respec to the Treasury Bills. Database of Morgan Stanley Capital International was used (MSCI). It was also used historical records of U.S. Treasury bonds and U.S Treasury bills as a proxy for the risk-free rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the 1990s there has been a significant change in the perception of and approach to the problem of disasters. The article briefly considers the development of different models and concepts of disasters, and then focuses on the new perspective of the risks that make disasters more likely, and that are socially constructed. It highlights the important role of the Network of Social Studies on Disaster Prevention in Latin America (LA RED) in this paradigm shift, and analyses its contributions, especially regarding the concept of risk management. Some of the basic assumptions of the RED are elaborated in more detail later, such as the persistence of a fatalistic attitude towards disasters, the close link between disaster risk and development, and the importance of taking into account the local dimension when addressing the problem. We conclude the article with a consideration of current conceptual advances y developments in how disaster risk management is being carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the "Risk Communication Research", this article explores risk messages of the TV series Heroes (NBC, 2006-), paradigm of the science fiction television post 11-S. With a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodology, threats and dangers of the first season are analyzed and a characterization of the post-modern archetype of the "traumatized hero" is given. Together with a big apocalyptic danger, this TV series has risks which come from the circle of trust of the protagonists. This article will underline how the main protagonists show heroic attitudes to face these dangers, but it essential struggle is against their own fears and traumas in a context of total distrust towards the society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work reflects on the changes geopolitics has undergone on the previous centuries, from the Eurocentric colonial model to US hegemony. Particularly, it lays an emphasis on geopolitical turns produced by the emergence of manifold issues and agents mediating on a worldwide scale, shaping a contemporary order characterized by plural power relationships and by strains overcoming the nation-states regulating role and intertwining on various scales, from the international to the regional and local levels. Geopolitics appears to be linked today both to the political management of individuals' life and control over their bodies, through landscape ranking and nature control, as well as to care and diffusion of collective security producing techniques. In the end, a reflection is suggested on the potential consequences of these hegemonic discourses on Panamazonian territorial planning and on its traditional dwellers' life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes how the image of Mexico has been constructed in the United States based on the idea of risk, and the border's special role in this process. This analysis seeks to explore the way limits between societies prevent possible threats for a group In this process the definition of otherness plays an important role. However, in this work we explore the way in which the other (Mexico) has been defined and constructed flora the United States' point of view. By way of an analytical example, we'll use movies filmed in North America using Mexican or Latin American images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]