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: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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. 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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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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