Political and educational springboard or straitjacket? Theorising post/human subjects in an age of vulnerability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2935562 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Ecclestone (University of Sheffield, corresponding author), Dan Goodley (0000-0002-0660-5671, University of Sheffield), Daniel Goodley (University of Sheffield) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 175-188 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2014.927112 |
| OpenAlex | W1969551894 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 27 |
Contemporary discourses of social justice in education, disability, mental health, social policy and feminist studies are refracted increasingly through concerns about psychological and structural vulnerabilities created by the crises of late capitalism. Focusing on developments in British social policy generally and educational research specifically, this paper uses the authors' contrasting perspectives on two discernible discourses of vulnerability emerging in these contexts. One elevates the recognition of collective vulnerability as a springboard for new conceptualisations of resistance that disrupt materialist narratives of the human subject as a coherent, unified and rational agent of history. A second discourse offers a materialist understanding that locates vulnerability as both driver and product of a 'therapeutic culture', arguing that a psycho-emotional focus for vulnerability offers a diminished and ineffective subjectivity that belies rhetorics of resistance. These contrasting perspectives generate and emerge simultaneously from new understandings of the human subject. The paper evaluates the implications of using vulnerability to frame expectations of human subjects for everyday educational practices and relationships. It concludes by suggesting empirical questions that need exploring. © 2014 © 2014 Taylor & Francis
Capitalism · Criminology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Materialism · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Children's Rights and Participation · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Social Work Education and Practice
New Kinds of (Ab)normal
Constituting Immigrant Care Workers Through Gendering and Racialising Practices in Education
Mate, You’re Crippin’ Us Out
Some Useful Sources
Changing the Subject of Education? A Critical Evaluation of ‘Vulnerability Creep’ and its Implications
I feel so trapped
The governance of vulnerability
The Ethics and Politics of Precarity
Identity politics, the ethos of vulnerability, and education
Governing emotionally vulnerable subjects and 'therapisation' of social justice
Toward a theory of trauma-informed pedagogy in higher education
The stigma-vulnerability nexus and the framing of drug problems
‘I'm not a caseworker, nor a carer, nor a support worker’
A posthuman pedagogy with Rancière and Bateson
Disturbing able-bodiedness in ‘vulnerable’ schools
Disruptive, dangerous and disturbing
Fitting in and looking pretty
The Many Faces of Vulnerability
Bookishness, blue skies, bright hats and brickies
Behaviour change policy agendas for ‘vulnerable’ subjectivities
Interpreting the mental health and wellbeing agenda in adult community learning
Sociological perspectives on the mental health and wellbeing agenda in education
Troubling stereotypes
Confronting well-being and mental health in the 'therapeutic university
Against the psychologization of resilience
Linguistic Vulnerability and Slow Bureaucratic Violence in Institutional Welfare Borderscapes
Living On; Not Getting Better
Political and educational springboard or straitjacket? Theorising post/human subjects in an age of vulnerability
Theorizing the affective logic of victimhood in public debates
Vulnerability, Space and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Dis/ability Studies
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
Precarity Talk
The body as disability and possability
Towards socially just pedagogies
Becoming rhizomatic parents
Disability and the Dialectics of Difference
Emotionally‐vulnerable subjects and new inequalities
Vulnerability and the neo-liberal youth citizen
Interventions for resilience in educational settings
The Sociological Imagination
Fear and Security
Disengaged and disaffected young people
Neoliberalizing Space
Voices of Silence
A thousand plateaus
Conceptualizing social justice in education
Governing emotionally vulnerable subjects and 'therapisation' of social justice
Bodies in the Borderlands
Prognosis time
Political and educational springboard or straitjacket? Theorising post/human subjects in an age of vulnerability
The University and the Undercommons
Posthuman, All Too Human
Beyond Consciousness
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |