Beata Świtek & Allen Abramson 
Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives [PDF ebook] 
Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts

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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. 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 res...

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Ordinary life, extraordinary risk: On the normalisation of significant risk-taking in precarious contexts.- Part I. Self-Constitution: Defi...

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About the author

Beata Świtek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 336 ● ISBN 9783030839628 ● File size 8.5 MB ● Editor Beata Świtek & Allen Abramson ● Publisher Springer International Publishing ● City Cham ● Country CH ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8340747 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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