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

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 : ‎ 3030839621
• ISBN-13 : ‎ 9783030839628
• Author: Beata Świtek , Allen Abramson , Hannah Swee 

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Risk: Precariousness in Everyday Contexts

Part I. Self-Constitution: Defiance, Endurance and Choice

2. ‘Knowing How to Walk’: Risk, Violence and Practices of Endurance in Urban Brazil

3. Risk Negotiations in the Mines of Potosí: Implications for Rethinking Current Health and Safety Approaches

4. Regenerative Medicine, Unproven Therapies and the Framing of Clinical Risk

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

6. ‘Keeping the Conversation Going’: Understanding Risk in a Context of Escalating Conflict in Syria

7. The Edgeworker’s Habitus: Climbing and Ordinary Risks

8. Commentary: Action, Edgework, and the Situated Logics of Risk

Part III. Environmental Threat and Cultural Possibility: Risk and the Contemporary City

9. ‘Asılmak Tehlikeli Ve Yasaktır’: Unintelligible Mobility and Uncertain Manhood in Istanbul’s Old City

10. Ordinary Life in the Shadow of Vesuvius: Surviving the Announced Catastrophe

11. Keeping Disasters Under Control: Anticipation, Cyclones and Responses to Uncertainty

12. Commentary: Interpretive Risk Ethnography as a Means of Understanding Risk Problems: Encounters with the Ordinary-Extraordinary and What Comes After?

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