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

Alessandro Blasimme, Allen Abramson, Atreyee Sen, Beata Switek, Giovanni Gugg, Hannah Swee, Janine Su, Julie L. Shackelford, Karen Henwood, Marie Kolling, Matthew Bunn, Mei L. Trueba, and Stephen Lyng.

ISBN 10: 3030839613 / ISBN 13: 9783030839611

Published by Palgrave, 2022

About this Item

2022 Palgrave hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition.

Contents:

1 'Introduction: Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Risk: Precariousness in Everyday Contexts' by Beata Switek and Allen Abramson,
2 'Knowing How to Walk': Risk, Violence and Practices of Endurance in Urban Brazil' by Marie Kolling,
3 'Risk Negotiations in the Mines of Potosi: Implications for Rethinking Current Health and Safety Approaches' by Mei L. Trueba,
4 'Regenerative Medicine, Unproven Therapies and the Framing of Clinical Risk' by Alessandro Blasimme,
5 'Commentary: Clear and Present Danger?Dodging and Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life' by Atreyee Sen,
6 'Keeping the Conversation Going: Understanding Risk in a Context of Escalating Conflict in Syria' by Julie L. Shackelford,
7 'The Edgeworker's Habitus: Climbing and Ordinary Risks' by Matthew Bunn,
8 'Commentary: Action, Edgeworker, and the Situated Logics of Risk' by Stephen Lyng,
9 'Asilmak Tehlikeli Ve Yasaktir': Unintelligible Mobility and Uncertain Manhood in Istanbul's Old City' by Janine Su,
10 'Ordinary Life in the Shadow of Vesuvius: Surviving the Announced Catastrophe' by Giovanni Gugg,
11 'Keeping Disasters Under Control: Anticipation, Cyclones and Responses to Uncertainty' by Hannah Swee,
12 'Commentary: Interpretive Risk Ethnography as a Means of Understanding Risk Problems: Encounters with the Ordinary-Extraordinary and What Comes After?' by Karen Henwood.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts
• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030839613
• ISBN 13: 9783030839611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

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.