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Notes
1. This special issue is the result of a workshop held at the University of Helsinki on 16–18 June 2011. The event was co-organized by Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen and Liz McFall, and sponsored by The Academy of Finland (128334), The Kone Foundation and The Federation of Finnish Financial Services. We warmly thank all the contributors to the conference; without them this issue would not exist.
2. While for Knight true uncertainty is a friend of risk, it may thus also be a ‘false friend’, as Callon et al. (Citation2009, p. 21) convincingly argue in their book Acting in an Uncertain World (see also Latour & Ewald, Citation2003).
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Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen
Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen is professor of sociology at the University of Tampere. He has also recently worked as a research fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. His current project examines how life and death are commodified in the contemporary practices of life insurance, and how the dynamic relationship between social security and markets shapes the conditions of existence for people. Lehtonen's earlier research focuses on social theory, the sociology of objects, economic sociology and the domestication of new technologies.
Ine Van Hoyweghen
Ine Van Hoyweghen is a Research Professor at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) at KU Leuven. She is working at the intersection of economic sociology, STS, and sociology of biomedicine with a key interest in the dynamics of economization in health care, and its effects on the framing of disease and health as well as on the forms of life with biomedicine. She is the author of Risks in the Making. Travels in Life Insurance and Genetics (2007). Her next project Postgenomic Solidarity is a European multi-sited comparative project on life insurance in the era of personalized medicine.