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Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives

Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts

Beata Switek editor Allen Abramson editor Hannah Swee editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:29th Mar '22

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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.

ISBN: 9783030839611

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336 pages

1st ed. 2022