ISBN:
9783030839628
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (341 pages)
Series Statement:
Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.12
Keywords:
Political sociology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Praise for Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Risk: Precariousness in Everyday Contexts -- Ordinary Actors and Practical Logic in Risk Studies -- The Distribution of Expertise and the Spread of Extraordinary Forms -- The Extraordinary Risk-Taking of Ordinary People -- Self-Cultivated Expertise -- Shifting Circumstances and Embodied Judgement -- Agency, Defiance and the Management of Fear -- Risk, Hope and the Longer-Term -- The Spread of Extraordinary Forms -- Extraordinary Risk and the Separation of Expertise -- The Migration of High-Risk Activity into Ordinary Spaces and Times -- Edgework and the Ordinary Extraordinary -- Organisation of the Book -- Bibliography -- Part I Self-Constitution: Defiance, Endurance and Choice -- 2 'Knowing How to Walk': Risk, Violence and Practices of Endurance in Urban Brazil -- Introduction -- Learning How to Walk -- New Spaces of Violence -- Brutal Killings and Brazil's Crack Epidemic -- Communal Power Walks and the Ambiguity of Danger -- Towards a Conception of the Violent-Ordinary -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3 Risk Negotiations in the Mines of Potosí: Implications for Rethinking Current Health and Safety Approaches -- Mining in Potosí: Living and Dying for the Mine -- Everyday Risks, Labour Arrangements and the Politics of OHS -- Negotiating Risks: The Emics of Health and Safety -- Risk Perception Underestimation and OHS -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Regenerative Medicine, Unproven Therapies and the Framing of Clinical Risk -- Introduction -- Ordinary States of Moral Inclusion -- Articulating Hope and Moral Segregation -- Regenexx: Recasting Cellular Risk -- CellTex: Cell Therapy and the Practice of Medicine -- Stamina: Cell Therapies and the Welfare State -- Ruptures and Continuities.
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