Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives

Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Beata Świtek, Allen Abramson, Hannah Swee, Beata Switek, Beata Świtek, Beata ¿Witek

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-03-30
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt461 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
Antal sidor336
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030839642

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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?