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Commentary: interpretive risk ethnography as a means of understanding risk problems: encounters with the ordinary-extraordinary and what comes after?

Henwood, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-5468 2022. Commentary: interpretive risk ethnography as a means of understanding risk problems: encounters with the ordinary-extraordinary and what comes after? Świtek, Beata, Abramson, Allen and Swee, Hannah, eds. Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan, 297–327. (10.1007/978-3-030-83962-8_12)

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Abstract

Ethnographic excursions into risk in everyday life involve reflexivity about epistemological and ontological framings and are useful for studying emergent phenomena. Drawing on anthropological knowledge and interdisciplinarity, chapters in the volume bring richly contextual, highly textured, in-depth accounts center-stage, posing questions about cultural intelligibility. They also account for different manifestations of pragmatism. In this commentary, interpretive ethnography is taken into a space where it is possible to develop practices of problem-focused environmental and risk study. Moreover, consideration is given to how working methodologically in this way can help to make public policy more relevant. Finally, the wider significance of analytic work undertaken by interpretive ethnographies is considered in relation to the so-called post-qualitative turn and growing interest in the new materialisms in qualitative research methodology.

Item Type: Book Section
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783030839628
Last Modified: 10 Nov 2022 11:33
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/150958

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