On Vulnerability - A Critical Introduction (Paperback)

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 that render us vulnerable - interactions, identity and group dynamics. Each chapter equips the reader with a particular sensitising framework for navigating and questioning what it means to be vulnerable or how people cope amid vulnerability. From deviance, stigma and the spoiling or fracturing of identity, to perspectives such as intersectionality, risk, emotions and the vulnerable body, the book traces the theoretical roots of these different analytical lenses, before applying these through illuminating examples and case studies. Drawing on scholarship across more interpretative, analytic and critical traditions, the chapters combine into a multi-dimensional toolkit which will enable the study of the cultural meanings of vulnerability, the political-economic factors that shape its patterning, with a critical sensibility for 'unlearning' many assumptions, therefore challenging our sense of who is, or who can be, vulnerable. This book is designed to equip undergraduate and post-graduate students and researchers across the social, health and human sciences, aiding them as they study and question the experiences and structures of vulnerability in our social world.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Patrick Brown
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-36661-2
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Research methods Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-36661-4
Barcode:	9780367366612

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