Introduction: situating risk in the everyday / Julie Scott Jones and Jayne Raisborough -- Contexts of choice : the risky business of elective cosmetic surgery / Jayne Raisborough -- "Fearing the worse, hoping for the best" : the discursive construction of risk in pregnancy / Dawn. S. Jones -- PE kits, playgrounds & pain : an exploration of children's experiences of risk, pain and injury in sport / Lara Killick -- Talking risks : constructing desired masculinities / David Merryweather -- Violence, risk and identity : "doing gender" or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives? / Wendy Laverick -- "Get with the programme" : human resource management a risky strategy? / Sal Watt -- 'Are we there yet? ': negotiating transitions and meaning crisis in young adults / Julie Scott Jones -- Index.
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Risks, Identities and the Everyday focuses on the individual and the lived experience of everyday risks - an interesting departure from the more recent focus on risk from a macro level. The contributors look at risk and how perceptions of risk, risk taking and risk assessment increasingly dominate our everyday lives and explore it in a variety of settings not previously associated with risk theory, including: plastic surgery, teenage sub-cultures, ageing and independent travel.
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