Vulnerability and the Politics of Care: Transdisciplinary Dialogues
Victoria Browne, Jason Danely, and Doerthe Rosenow
Abstract
Vulnerability is a fundamental aspect of existence, giving rise to the need for care in various forms. Yet we are not all vulnerable in the same way, and not all vulnerabilities are equally recognised or cared for. This transdisciplinary volume considers how vulnerability and care are shaped by relations of power within contemporary contexts of war, development, environmental degradation, sexual violence, aging populations and economic precarity. It proposes that care for vulnerable populations or individuals is inseparable from other political processes of recognition, welfare, healthcare and ... More
Vulnerability is a fundamental aspect of existence, giving rise to the need for care in various forms. Yet we are not all vulnerable in the same way, and not all vulnerabilities are equally recognised or cared for. This transdisciplinary volume considers how vulnerability and care are shaped by relations of power within contemporary contexts of war, development, environmental degradation, sexual violence, aging populations and economic precarity. It proposes that care for vulnerable populations or individuals is inseparable from other political processes of recognition, welfare, healthcare and security, whilst also exploring vulnerability as a shared, generative condition that makes caring possible. Ethnographic and narrative accounts of vulnerable life and caring relations in various geographical regions – including Japan, Uganda, Micronesia, Iraq, Mexico, the UK and the US – are interspersed with perspectives from philosophy, International Relations, social and cultural theory, and more, resulting in a compelling series of intellectual exchanges, creative frictions and provocative insights.
Keywords:
vulnerability,
care,
politics,
transdisciplinary,
ethnography,
narrative,
international relations,
philosophy,
precarity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780197266830 |
| Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: May 2021 |
DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197266830.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Victoria Browne, editor
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University
Jason Danely, editor
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Japan, Oxford Brookes University
Doerthe Rosenow, editor
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Oxford Brookes University
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