ISBN:
9780197266830
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 263 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Proceedings of the British Academy 235
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Vulnerability and the Politics of Care (Veranstaltung : 2017 : London) Vulnerability and the politics of care
Keywords:
Young adults Psychology
;
Young adults Social conditions
;
Conflict of generations
;
Konferenzschrift 2017
;
Verwundbarkeit
;
Verwundbarkeit
;
Sozialpolitik
;
Soziale Verantwortung
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 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.
Note:
"... the "Vulnerability and the Politics of Care" conference hosted and funded by the British Academy in 2017" (Acknowledgements)
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