The Politics Of Vulnerability
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Author |
: Estelle Ferrarese |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2017-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351719551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351719556 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Vulnerability by : Estelle Ferrarese
Vulnerability is a concept with fleeting contours as much it is an idea with assured academic success. In the United States, torturable, "mutilatable," and killable bodies are a wide topic of discussion, especially after September 11 and the ensuing bellicosity. In Europe, current reflection on vulnerability has emerged from a thematic of precarity and exclusion; the term evokes lives that are dispensable, evictable, deportable, and the abandoning of individuals to naked forces of the market. But if the theme has had notable fortune, it also continues to come up against considerable reluctance. The political scope of vulnerability is often denied: it seems inevitably to be relegated to the sphere of "good sentiments." This book aims to address this criticism. It shows that by questioning our hegemonic anthropology, by reinventing the categories of freedom, equality, and being-in-common based on the body, by overthrowing the legitimate grammar of political discourse, and by redefining the political subject – the category of vulnerability, far from being conservative or a-political, works to undo the world such as it is. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Horizons.
Author |
: Julia Teebken |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2022-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000562293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000562298 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change by : Julia Teebken
This book compares how the social consequences of climate change are similarly unevenly distributed within China and the United States, despite different political systems. Focusing on the cases of Atlanta, USA, and Jinhua, China, Julia Teebken explores a set of path-dependent factors (lock-ins), which hamper the pursuit of climate adaptation by local governments to adequately address the root causes of vulnerability. Lock-ins help to explain why adaptation efforts in both locations are incremental and commonly focus on greening the environment. In both these political systems, vulnerability appears as a core component along with the reconstitution of a class-based society. This manifests in the way knowledge and political institutions operate. For this reason, Teebken challenges the argument that China’s environmental authoritarian structures are better equipped in dealing with matters related to climate change. She also interrogates the proposition that certain aspects of the liberal democratic tradition of the United States are better suited in dealing with social justice issues in the context of adaptation. Overall, the book’s findings contradict the widespread assumption that developed countries necessarily have higher adaptive capacity than developing or emerging economies. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate justice and vulnerability, climate adaptation and environmental policy and governance.
Author |
: Katie Oliviero |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2018-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479847822 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479847828 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vulnerability Politics by : Katie Oliviero
"Katie Oliviero's "Vulnerability Politics: The Uses and Abuses of Precarity in Political Debate" explores the concept of politically vulnerable and unprotected groups in the 21st century. The book addresses such important issues as women's reproductive rights, immigration and marriage equality" --
Author |
: Jeffrey Lazarus |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2018-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472123599 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472123599 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gendered Vulnerability by : Jeffrey Lazarus
Gendered Vulnerability examines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. These factors combine to convince women that they must work harder to win elections—a phenomenon that Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt term “gendered vulnerability.” Since women feel constant pressure to make sure they can win reelection, they devote more of their time and energy to winning their constituents’ favor. Lazarus and Steigerwalt examine different facets of legislative behavior, finding that female members do a better job of representing their constituents than male members.
Author |
: Judith Butler |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2016-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822373490 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822373491 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vulnerability in Resistance by : Judith Butler
Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in Resistance articulate an understanding of the role of vulnerability in practices of resistance. They consider how vulnerability is constructed, invoked, and mobilized within neoliberal discourse, the politics of war, resistance to authoritarian and securitarian power, in LGBTQI struggles, and in the resistance to occupation and colonial violence. The essays offer a feminist account of political agency by exploring occupy movements and street politics, informal groups at checkpoints and barricades, practices of self-defense, hunger strikes, transgressive enactments of solidarity and mourning, infrastructural mobilizations, and aesthetic and erotic interventions into public space that mobilize memory and expose forms of power. Pointing to possible strategies for a feminist politics of transversal engagements and suggesting a politics of bodily resistance that does not disavow forms of vulnerability, the contributors develop a new conception of embodiment and sociality within fields of contemporary power. Contributors. Meltem Ahiska, Athena Athanasiou, Sarah Bracke, Judith Butler, Elsa Dorlin, Başak Ertür, Zeynep Gambetti, Rema Hammami, Marianne Hirsch, Elena Loizidou, Leticia Sabsay, Nükhet Sirman, Elena Tzelepis
Author |
: Greg Bankoff |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2022-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000570991 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000570991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Vulnerability Still Matters by : Greg Bankoff
We think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapters and case studies written by eminent disaster studies scholars that deal with the politics of disaster risk creation: precarity, conflict, and climate change. The chapters highlight different aspects of vulnerability and disaster risk creation, placing the stress rightly on what causes disasters and explaining the politics of how they are created through a combination of human interference with natural processes, the social production of vulnerability, and the neglect of response capacities. Importantly, too, the book provides a platform for many of those most prominently involved in launching disaster studies as a social discipline to reflect on developments over the past 50 years and to comment on current trends. The interdisciplinary and historical perspective that this book provides will appeal to scholars and practitioners at both the national and international level seeking to study, develop, and support effective social protection strategies to prevent or mitigate the effects of hazards on vulnerable populations. It will also prove an invaluable reference work for students and all those interested in the future safety of the world we live in.
Author |
: Asma T. Uddin |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2021-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781643136639 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1643136631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Vulnerability by : Asma T. Uddin
A religious liberty lawyer and acclaimed author reveals the root of America's polarization inside the Muslim and evangelical Christian divide—and how it can be healed. Despite the dire consequences of America's cultural, political, and religious divisiveness, from increasing incivility to discrimination and outright violence, few have been able to get to the core cause of this conflict. Even fewer have offered measures for reconcilliation. Now, in The Politics of Vulnerability, Asma Uddin, American-Muslim public intellectual, religious-liberties attorney, and activist, provides a unique perspective on the complex political and social factors contributing to the Muslim-Christian divide. Unlike other analysts, Uddin asks what underlying drivers cause otherwise good people to do—or believe—bad things? Why do people who value faith support of measures that limit others, especially of Muslims’, religious freedom and other rights?’ Uddin humanizes a contentious relationship by fully embracing both sides as individuals driven by very human fears and anxieties. Many conservative Christians fear that the Left is dismantling traditional “Christian America” to replace it with an Islamized America, a conspiratorial theory that has given rise to an “evangelical persecution complex,” a politicized vulnerability. Uddin reveals that Islamophobia and other aspects of the conservative Christian movement are interconnected. Where does hate come from and how can it be conquered? Only by addressing the underlying factors of this politics of vulnerability can we begin to heal the divide.
Author |
: Katie Oliviero |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2018-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479833696 |
ISBN-13 |
: 147983369X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vulnerability Politics by : Katie Oliviero
A new understanding of vulnerability in contemporary political culture Progressive thinkers have argued that placing the concept of vulnerability at the center of discussions about social justice would lead governments to more equitably distribute resources and create opportunities for precarious groups – especially women, children, people of color, queers, immigrants and the poor. At the same time, conservatives claim that their values and communities are vulnerable to attack–often by these same groups. In turn, they craft antidemocratic representations of vulnerability that significantly influence the political landscape, restricting human and legal rights for many in order to expand them for a historically privileged few. Vulnerability Politics examines how twenty-first century political struggles over immigration, LGBTQ rights, reproductive justice, and police violence have created a sense of vulnerability that has an impact on culture and the law. By researching organizations like the Minutemen (civilians who monitor the US/Mexico border), the Protect Marriage Coalition (a campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California), and the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (an anti-abortion movement), Katie Oliviero shows how conservative movements use the rhetoric of risk to oppose liberal policies by claiming that the nation, family, and morality are imperiled and in need of government protection. The author argues that this sensationalism has shifted the focus away from the everyday and institutional precarities experienced by marginalized communities and instead reinforces the idea that groups only deserve social justice protections when their beliefs reflect the dominant nationalist, racial, and sexual ideals.
Author |
: Victoria Browne |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2021-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0197266835 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780197266830 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vulnerability and the Politics of Care by : Victoria Browne
This book brings together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to examine what it means to be vulnerable, to care and be cared for, within conditions of inequality, violence and crisis across the globe.
Author |
: A. Beckett |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2006-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230501294 |
ISBN-13 |
: 023050129X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Citizenship and Vulnerability by : A. Beckett
Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK, and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, Ellison's ideas of proactive and defensive engagement and Turner's 'sociology of the body', Beckett proposes a new model of 'active' citizenship that rests upon an understanding of 'vulnerable personhood'.