ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the anthropological point of view toward the experience and management of urban danger – when and where danger is at hand, who is dangerous, what constitutes danger, how one copes with it. The danger is not evenly distributed within the matrix of space and time. For many urbanites even getting into a dangerous situation is in a way a failure in danger management, as knowledge and effort may primarily be involved in avoiding it altogether. When the dangerous person is a stranger, one does not have – or at least is not aware of – any indirect network link to him through an intermediary. The concern with danger in the city has turned out to be a thing of many parts, an entire danger complex. Some urbanites may take too little notice of it for their own good, others are more preoccupied with it than necessary.
