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Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives

Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
336 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am30.03.20231st ed. 2022
This book untangles the relationship between expert categorisations of risk and the on-the-ground experiences of untrained ordinary´ people who may be routinely subjected to significant danger in a variety of extraordinary contexts.mehr
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KlappentextThis book untangles the relationship between expert categorisations of risk and the on-the-ground experiences of untrained ordinary´ people who may be routinely subjected to significant danger in a variety of extraordinary contexts.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-83964-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum30.03.2023
Auflage1st ed. 2022
ReiheCritical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
Seiten336 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXVII, 336 p. 18 illus., 16 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.52033724

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1. Introduction: Ordinary life, extraordinary risk: On the normalisation of significant risk-taking in precarious contexts.- Part I. Self-Constitution: Defiance, endurance and choice.- Chapter 2. Knowing how to walk´: Risk, violence and practices of endurance in urban Brazil.- Chapter 3. Risk negotiations in the mines of Potosí: Implications for rethinking current Health and Safety approaches.- Chapter 4. Regenerative medicine, unproven therapies and the framing of clinical risk.- Chapter 5. Commentary: Clear and present danger: Dodging and dealing with risk and uncertainty in everyday life.- Part II. Shifting dangers: Macro and micro politics of risk.- Chapter 6. Keeping the conversation going´: Understanding risk in a context of escalating conflict in Syria.- Chapter 7. The Edgeworker´s Habitus: Climbing and Ordinary Risks.- Chapter 8. Commentary: Action, edgework, and the situated logics of risk.- Part III. Environmental threat and cultural possibility: Risk and the contemporary city.- Chapter 9. Asılmak tehlikeli ve yasaktır´:  Unintelligible mobility and uncertain manhood in Istanbul´s Old City.- Chapter 10. Ordinary life in the shadow of Vesuvius: Surviving the announced catastrophe.- Chapter 11. Keeping disasters under control: Anticipation, cyclones and responses to uncertainty.- Chapter 12. Commentary: Interpretive risk ethnography as a means of understanding risk problems: Encounters with the ordinary-extraordinary and what comes after?mehr

Autor

Beata Switek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Allen Abramson is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College London, UK.
Hannah Swee is a climate and capacity building specialist for the United Nations.
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