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

2022 ed.

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

ISBN-10 3030839648

ISBN-13 9783030839642

Edition 2022 ed.

Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 30th, 2023

Print length 336 Pages

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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.

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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