Gérer le risque en contexte de précarité : l’exemple de l’épidémie de Covid-19

This article will analyze the risk of individuals living in precarious conditions, under the perspective of uncertainty. Results came from the analysis of weekly phone conferences and individual interviews (15) during the period from April to July 2020. Attitudes toward risk are above all plural, and can be related to the diversity of dimensions of precariousness and risk representation, but also to others determinants that shape behaviour. Risk representations in those times are uncertain yet steeped by fear, partially because of this group vulnerability to the disease (comorbidity). People organize their way of seeing the world in time of pandemic through the perception of protected and unprotected spaces, symbolic (the home) or social spaces. It allows them to reduce the uncertainty and the feeling of powerlessness, and also to continue to overcome the day to day life. Equally, fatalistic discourses hold this function against the uncertainty and lack of control that constitute their life's. The data, captured in the immediacy of experience and analyzed within sociological and anthropological frameworks, informs the way those people appropriate the measures recommended by public health authorities.