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Pursued in part through an anecdotal story of my time with an FDNY firefighter, the book starts with a review of literature on risk and a thorough conceptualisation of the book’s central concept: lived relations to risk. The chapter then moves to situate fire governance in its contemporary moment through elaborating on the transformations that digital technologies and the broader security context have affected upon it. A more detailed account of the actual case researched and the methods used then follows. Here, the chapter describes in depth the UK Fire and Rescue Service (FRS), the digital infrastructure upon which it relies and the use of ethnography, interviews and textual analysis to explore this infrastructure. The chapter concludes with an outline of chapters to come.
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O’Grady, N. (2018). Introduction. In: Governing Future Emergencies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71991-7_1
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