ABSTRACT
The third and final tier of our definition pertains to how the implementation of the idiom of risk assessment and management might feed back into the materiality of danger. As a manifestation of instrumental reason and a predefined and very general explanation of reality, interventions may serve universalising and externally imposed conceptions of local realities, for example, based upon international conventions and/or national-level policy documents. Where this is the case, the effects of interventions on the materiality of danger are likely to be minimal at best and detrimental at worst.
