Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts

Brings together a range of empirical accounts from across different disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, and medicine
Based on ethnographic case studies presented during the workshop organized by the Department of Anthropology at University College London, UK in autumn 2014
Includes critical commentaries that scrutinise the ethnographic cases to summarise, expand, supplement and challenge the arguments put forward.

Author: Beata Świtek
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/30/2023
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9783030839642

About the Author
Beata Świtek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Allen Abramson is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College London, UK.
Hannah Swee is a climate and capacity building specialist for the United Nations.