| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Critical studies in risk and uncertainty |
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Critical studies in risk and uncertainty.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction: Ordinary life, extraordinary risk: On the normalisation of significant risk-taking in precarious contexts -- Part I. Self-Constitution: Defiance, endurance and choice -- Chapter 2. Knowing how to walk: Risk, violence and practices of endurance in urban Brazil -- Chapter 3. Risk negotiations in the mines of Potosi: Implications for rethinking current Health and Safety approaches -- Chapter 4. Regenerative medicine, unproven therapies and the framing of clinical risk -- Chapter 5. Commentary: Clear and present danger: Dodging and dealing with risk and uncertainty in everyday life -- Part II. Shifting dangers: Macro and micro politics of risk -- Chapter 6. Keeping the conversation going: Understanding risk in a context of escalating conflict in Syria -- Chapter 7. The Edgeworkers Habitus: Climbing and Ordinary Risks -- Chapter 8. Commentary: Action, edgework, and the situated logics of risk -- Part III. Environmental threat and cultural possibility: Risk and the contemporary city -- Chapter 9. Aslmak tehlikeli ve yasaktr: Unintelligible mobility and uncertain manhood in Istanbuls Old City -- Chapter 10. Ordinary life in the shadow of Vesuvius: Surviving the announced catastrophe -- Chapter 11. Keeping disasters under control: Anticipation, cyclones and responses to uncertainty -- Chapter 12. Commentary: Interpretive risk ethnography as a means of understanding risk problems: Encounters with the ordinary-extraordinary and what comes after? |
| Summary |
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. Beata Switek 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Risk -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Risk -- Political aspects
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Risk -- Sociological aspects.
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Risk -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Risk -- Sociological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Switek, Beata, editor.
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Abramson, Allen, editor.
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Swee, Hannah, editor
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| ISBN |
3030839621 |
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9783030839628 |
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