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.
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.
Bodies, Resistance, Despair
1: JUDITH BUTLER: Bodies that Still Matter
2: ROSALBA ICAZA: Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics
3: C. JASON THROOP: Meteorological Moods and Atmospheric
Attunements
Response: The Terror of InvulnerabilityRAHUL RAO:
Ambiguity, Affectivity, Violence
4: ERINN GILSON: The Problems and Potentials of Vulnerability
5: THOMAS GREGORY: Vulnerable Civilians: Coalition Checkpoints and
the Perception of Hostile Intent
6: OMAR DEWACHI: Revealed in the Wound: Medical Care and the
Ecologies of War in Post-Occupation Iraq
Response: On the Condition of Being OpenVÉRONIQUE PIN-FAT:
Narrative, Relationality, Disclosure
7: JACKIE LEACH SCULLY: The politics of care: from biomedical
transformation to narrative vulnerability
8: JASON DANELY: "It rips you to bits!": Woundedness and Compassion
in Carers' Narratives
9: ANN CAHILL: Disclosing an Experience of Sexual Assault: Ethics
and the Role of the Confidant
Response: Tenuous MooringsYASMIN GUNARATNAM:
Dependence, Distribution, Waiting
10: LOTTE MEINERT: Vulnerability as Radically Social: Cash and Care
for the Elderly in Uganda
11: LISA BARAITSER AND WILLIAM BROOK: Watchful Waiting:
Temporalities of Crisis and Care in the UK: National Health
Service
Response: The Hopeless Hopeful Time of CaringTIFFANY PAGE:
Index
Victoria Browne is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes
University, specialising in feminist theory and philosophy. Her
books include Feminism, Time and Nonlinear History (Palgrave 2014),
and she has published widely in journals such as Hypatia, Signs and
Radical Philosophy. Currently, Victoria is working on a book
exploring the politics and temporalities of pregnancy - a project
supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. She is also
co-editor of the
journal Radical Philosophy.
Jason Danely's books include Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity
in Contemporary Japan (2014) and Transitions and Transformations:
Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course (2013). Jason's
work on aging and care in Japan has been published in anthropology
journals, including Cultural Anthropology, Medicine Anthropology
Theory, and Ethnos. He has conducted comparative research on unpaid
caregivers of older family members in Japan and the UK and is
currently working on older
ex-offender resettlement in Japan supported by an SSRC Abe
Fellowship. Doerthe Rosenow is Senior Lecturer in International
Relations at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of
Un-making Environmental
Activism: Beyond Modern/Colonial Binaries in the GMO Controversy
(Routledge 2017) and has published widely in the field of
International Relations and related disciplines in journals such as
Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology and
Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. Her current research
is on decolonial thought, settler colonialism and Indigenous
writings. She is Associate Editor of the journal Security Dialogue.
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