Patrick Brown (The Netherlands University of Amsterdam)

On Vulnerability

A Critical Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different social groups, alongside the everyday social processes which make us vulnerable â interactions, identity and group dynamics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367366612
• ISBN-10: 0367366614
• Artikelnr.: 61211545

Autorenporträt

Patrick Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He studies how individuals, groups and organisations manage their vulnerability amid uncertainty, for example, through risk, trust, hope, faith and everyday rituals, and the difficulties they encounter in doing so.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Vulnerability as deviance and stigma
2. When 'normal' people become vulnerable
3. The intersectionality of vulnerability
4. Understanding vulnerability through the lens of risk
5. Trust, hope, magic and the paradox of vulnerability
6. The vulnerable body
7. Vulnerability to suffering
8. Ethical concerns in researching vulnerability, as inseparable from
methodological and analytical considerations
Conclusions: Three types of knowledge around vulnerability