In-Between Modes of Engaging with Risk and Uncertainty
摘要
This chapter suggests that trust, intuition, and emotion constitute an independent form of reasoning, which is called in-between, and differs from both rational calculation and non-rational imagining. These are pervasive in everyday life, and have specific advantages when people lack the time, reflexive knowledge, or resources to conduct a detailed exploration of risk and uncertainty. Trust is discussed as a hybrid epistemic mode, experiential and grounded in habitual and emotional attunement to others and institutions. It is indispensable in situations in which rational knowledge is insufficient or contested, particularly during crises such as pandemics. Intuition is discussed as an embodied, socially and biographically conditioned mode of knowing, neither mystical nor irrational, but a fundamental part of navigating uncertainty. Finally, emotions are considered central components of risk engagement rather than disturbances. They are integral to all decision-making, influencing perception, memory, and evaluation of risk. Together, these in-between modes reveal how subjective, imaginative, and experiential forms of knowing structure the sense-making of risk and uncertainty.