Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)

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.

• | Author: Beata Switek, Allen Abramson, Hannah Swee
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 23, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 353 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3030839613
• | ISBN-13: 9783030839611