All of Us Are Vulnerable, But Some Are More Vulnerable than Others
The Political Ambiguity of Vulnerability Studies, an Ambivalent Critique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12643252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alyson Cole (0000-0002-1911-6092, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 260-277 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Horizons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14409917.2016.1153896 |
| OpenAlex | W2510838062 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 115 |
| References cited | 27 |
This paper raises several concerns about vulnerability as an alternative language to conceptualize injustice and politicize its attendant injuries. First, the project of resignifying “vulnerability” by emphasizing its universality and amplifying its generative capacity, I suggest, might dilute perceptions of inequality and muddle important distinctions among specific vulnerabilities, as well as differences between those who are injurable and those who are already injured. Vulnerability scholars, moreover, have yet to elaborate the path from acknowledging constitutive vulnerability to addressing concrete injustices. Second, vulnerability studies respond to, and have been shaped by, debates in the 1980s and 1990s over oppression, identity and agency. This genealogy needs to be acknowledged and evaluated. As I demonstrate, prominent theorists define vulnerability in contradistinction to victimization, adopting neo-liberal formulations of victims and victimhood. Finally, I turn to address the politics of vulnerability. At issue are not simply matters of utility or programmes for implementation, but the fraught relationship among ontology, ethics and politics, which I address through an engagement with Rancière's conception of the political and the case of the Black Lives Matter movement
Ambiguity · Ambivalence · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 115 |
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| Citations per year | 12,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 112 |