xii Contributors
Commissioners (NAIC) and has presented on issues of insurance and
wildfire to the NAIC, the Federal Home Finance Administration, and
to HopeNow, an organization of mortgage lenders/servicers. For his
thousands of hours of volunteer work on-site in the wake of natural
disasters, he has been awarded the State Bar of California’s highest
award for pro bono legal services.
Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, PhD, is a Professor of Sociology at Tampere
University, Finland. His present work centres on two different areas; one
of which is insurance and the management of uncertainty, and the other
the role of waste in contemporary life. In addition, Lehtonen has written
extensively on social theory. His recent work includes papers in the
journals Political Theory, Cultural Studies, Distinktion, Theory, Culture
& Society, Valuation Studies, and Economy and Society.
Chloe Lucas, PhD, is a human geographer at the University of Tasmania. A
communications specialist, she began her career making documentaries
about science and landscape history for the BBC. Chloe’s research
explores the values and experiences underlying different social responses
to climate change, and identifies pathways to more empathetic and
inclusive climate conversations. Her recent work focusses on how
communication and cultural context drives social adaptation to extreme
weather events, and can be found in journals including Climatic Change,
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Geographical Research,
and WIRES Climate Change.
Liz McFall, PhD, is the Director of Data Civics and Chancellor’s
Fellow based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and Sociology at
the University of Edinburgh. She co-edited Markets and the Arts of
Attachment (2017), wrote Devising Consumption: Cultural Economies
of Insurance, Credit and Spending (2014) and Advertising: A Cultural
Economy (2004) and edits the Journal of Cultural Economy. She is
co-founder of AWED, a collective that make films and installations
exploring the orchestration of civic sentiments and data techniques,
most recently Closes and Opens: A History of Edinburgh’s Futures –
available on YouTube.
Scott McKinnon, PhD, is an oral historian and geographer at the Australian
Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS),
University of Wollongong. His research explores the social dimensions
of disaster, including processes of disaster commemoration, and the
impacts of disaster on marginalized social groups. He is co-editor (with
Margaret Cook) of Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical
Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe (published 2020). Scott has
also published extensively on histories and geographies of sexuality,
including Gay Men at the Movies: Cinema, Memory and the History of a
Gay Male Community (2016).
Commissioners (NAIC) and has presented on issues of insurance and
wildfire to the NAIC, the Federal Home Finance Administration, and
to HopeNow, an organization of mortgage lenders/servicers. For his
thousands of hours of volunteer work on-site in the wake of natural
disasters, he has been awarded the State Bar of California’s highest
award for pro bono legal services.
Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, PhD, is a Professor of Sociology at Tampere
University, Finland. His present work centres on two different areas; one
of which is insurance and the management of uncertainty, and the other
the role of waste in contemporary life. In addition, Lehtonen has written
extensively on social theory. His recent work includes papers in the
journals Political Theory, Cultural Studies, Distinktion, Theory, Culture
& Society, Valuation Studies, and Economy and Society.
Chloe Lucas, PhD, is a human geographer at the University of Tasmania. A
communications specialist, she began her career making documentaries
about science and landscape history for the BBC. Chloe’s research
explores the values and experiences underlying different social responses
to climate change, and identifies pathways to more empathetic and
inclusive climate conversations. Her recent work focusses on how
communication and cultural context drives social adaptation to extreme
weather events, and can be found in journals including Climatic Change,
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Geographical Research,
and WIRES Climate Change.
Liz McFall, PhD, is the Director of Data Civics and Chancellor’s
Fellow based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and Sociology at
the University of Edinburgh. She co-edited Markets and the Arts of
Attachment (2017), wrote Devising Consumption: Cultural Economies
of Insurance, Credit and Spending (2014) and Advertising: A Cultural
Economy (2004) and edits the Journal of Cultural Economy. She is
co-founder of AWED, a collective that make films and installations
exploring the orchestration of civic sentiments and data techniques,
most recently Closes and Opens: A History of Edinburgh’s Futures –
available on YouTube.
Scott McKinnon, PhD, is an oral historian and geographer at the Australian
Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS),
University of Wollongong. His research explores the social dimensions
of disaster, including processes of disaster commemoration, and the
impacts of disaster on marginalized social groups. He is co-editor (with
Margaret Cook) of Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical
Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe (published 2020). Scott has
also published extensively on histories and geographies of sexuality,
including Gay Men at the Movies: Cinema, Memory and the History of a
Gay Male Community (2016).