Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts
Language: English
Published by Palgrave, 2022
- Hardcover
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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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- Title
- Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts
- Author
- 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.
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3030839613
- ISBN 13
- 9783030839611
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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