Commentary: Clear and Present Danger: Dodging and Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life

Atreyee Sen

Commentary: Clear and Present Danger: Dodging and Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life

Department of Anthropology

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Abstract

This chapter explores aspects of distrust, conflict, and guilt over the burden of acknowledging extraordinary risks, mainly through ordinary narratives of bitterness displayed by former Tibetan prisoners in Dharamsala. A small town located in the scenic Kangra Valley in Himachal Pradesh, one of the states along the foothills of the Indian Himalayas, Dharamsala is the exile home of thousands of Tibetan political prisoners. I highlight some of the ways in which groups of political prisoners harnessed diverse material cultures to endorse their experiences of political activism, arrest, and incarceration in China, with the intention of building a powerful political future within a rapidly modernising Tibetan refugee community. The ethnographic material collected from my fieldwork frames and intersects with the analysis of risk and danger embedded in the chapters by Kolling, Blasimme, and Trueba.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives : Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts
Editors	Beata Świtek, Allen Abramson, Hannah Swee
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2022
Pages	119–136
ISBN (Print)	9783030839611
Publication status	Published - 2022

Series	Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

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https://link-springer-com.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/book/10.1007/978-3-030-83962-8

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Sen, A. (2022). Commentary: Clear and Present Danger: Dodging and Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life. In B. Świtek, A. Abramson, & H. Swee (Eds.), Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives : Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts (pp. 119–136). Springer. Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty https://link-springer-com.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/book/10.1007/978-3-030-83962-8

Commentary: Clear and Present Danger : Dodging and Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life. / Sen, Atreyee.

Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives : Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts. ed. / Beata Świtek; Allen Abramson; Hannah Swee. Cham : Springer, 2022. p. 119–136 (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Sen, A 2022, Commentary: Clear and Present Danger: Dodging and Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life. in B Świtek, A Abramson & H Swee (eds), Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives : Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts. Springer, Cham, Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty, pp. 119–136. <https://link-springer-com.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/book/10.1007/978-3-030-83962-8>

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