@inbook{a3b25c8d278c42b28501e3da1e74bc85,
title = "{\textquoteleft}Knowing how to walk{\textquoteright}: Risk, violence and practices of endurance in urban Brazil",
abstract = "Violence has encroached on the city of Recife for decades and infused everyday life. This chapter explores practices of endurance under conditions that are best described as violent-ordinary. In the mid-2000s, a peripheral area of the city started to undergo state-led redevelopment that in unanticipated ways forged new spaces of violence. The chapter analyses how residents navigate the new and shifting spaces of danger, which, as residents explain, requires {\textquoteleft}knowing how to walk{\textquoteright}. It argues that the sensory and quotidian practices of knowing how to walk should not be understood as residents{\textquoteright} attempts of seeking security, but as a way of pragmatically enduring pervasive insecurity. The analysis bridges theory on risk-taking as a state of exception with risk-taking as a mundane practice that can be routinised and normalised.",
keywords = "Risk, Violence, Brazil, Insecurity, violent-ordinary",
author = "Marie Kolling",
year = "2022",
month = mar,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-83962-8\_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-83961-1",
series = "Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "39--62",
booktitle = "Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives",
address = "United Kingdom",
}