Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives : Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts / / edited by Beata Świtek, Allen Abramson, Hannah Swee
| Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives : Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts / / edited by Beata Świtek, Allen Abramson, Hannah Swee |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 pages) |
| Disciplina | 302.12 |
| Collana | Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty |
| Soggetto topico |
Culture
Social medicine Political sociology Ethnology Sociology of Culture Medical Sociology Political Sociology Ethnography |
| ISBN |
9783030839628
3030839621 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 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? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910556875103321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Land, law, and environment [[electronic resource] ] : mythical land, legal boundaries / / edited by Allen Abramson and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
| Land, law, and environment [[electronic resource] ] : mythical land, legal boundaries / / edited by Allen Abramson and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 224 p |
| Disciplina | 304.2/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AbramsonAllen
TheodossopoulosDimitrios |
| Collana | Anthropology, culture, and society |
| Soggetto topico |
Human geography
Landscape assessment Landscape changes Land settlement patterns Land tenure - Law and legislation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-84964-060-2
0-585-42621-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454812503321 |
| London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Land, law, and environment [[electronic resource] ] : mythical land, legal boundaries / / edited by Allen Abramson and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
| Land, law, and environment [[electronic resource] ] : mythical land, legal boundaries / / edited by Allen Abramson and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 224 p |
| Disciplina | 304.2/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AbramsonAllen
TheodossopoulosDimitrios |
| Collana | Anthropology, culture, and society |
| Soggetto topico |
Human geography
Landscape assessment Landscape changes Land settlement patterns Land tenure - Law and legislation |
| ISBN |
1-84964-060-2
0-585-42621-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780200603321 |
| London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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