{"product_id":"extraordinary-risks-ordinary-lives-logics-of-precariousness-in-everyday-contexts-9783030839611","title":"Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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 Potosí: 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 Edgeworker’s 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. ‘Asılmak tehlikeli ve yasaktır’:  Unintelligible mobility and uncertain manhood in Istanbul’s 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?","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516323029335,"sku":"9783030839611","price":113.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/extraordinary-risks-ordinary-lives-logics-of-precariousness-in-everyday-contexts-9783030839611","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}