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

Book 8 of 9: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
 
9783030839642: Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts

Synopsis

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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