Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts

Switek, Beata (Editor)/ Abramson, Allen (Editor)/ Swee, Hannah (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3030839648 / ISBN 13: 9783030839642

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

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356 pages. 8.27x5.83x8.27 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030839648
• ISBN 13: 9783030839642
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

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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.

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.