Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty) - Hardcover

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9783030839611: Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3030839613 ISBN 13: 9783030839611
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Synopsis

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. It considers political, ethical and moral dimensions of risk and calls for more targeted ethnographic research, designed to reveal how grass-roots risk dispositions and practice intersect with official discourses, individual agency and community resilience.

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About the Author

Beata Świtek 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.

From the Back Cover

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. It considers political, ethical and moral dimensions of risk and calls for more targeted ethnographic research, designed to reveal how grass-roots risk dispositions and practice intersect with official discourses, individual agency and community resilience. 

Beata Świtek 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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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3030839613
ISBN 13 
9783030839611
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
353
Editor
Świtek Beata, Abramson Allen, Swee Hannah