On Vulnerability A Critical Introduction 1st Edition Patrick Brown by Patrick Brown 9780367366612, 9780367366605, 9780429347740, 9781000400281, 9781000400298, 0367366614, 0367366606, 042934774X, 100040028X instant download after payment.

On Vulnerabilitymaps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature
of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different social groups, alongside theeveryday social processes that render us vulnerable –interactions, identity andgroup dynamics.
Each chapter equips the reader with a particular sensitising framework fornavigating and questioning what it means to be vulnerable or how people copeamid vulnerability. From deviance, stigma and the spoiling or fracturing of identity,to perspectives such as intersectionality, risk, emotions and the vulnerable body, thebook traces the theoretical roots of these different analytical lenses, before applyingthese through illuminating examples and case studies.
Drawing on scholarship across more interpretative, analytic and critical traditions,the chapters combine into a multi-dimensional toolkit that will enable the study ofthe cultural meanings of vulnerability, the political-economic factors that shape itspatterning, with a critical sensibility for ‘unlearning’ many assumptions, thereforechallenging our sense of who is, or who can be, vulnerable. This book is designedto equip undergraduate and post- graduate students and researchers across the social,health and human sciences, aiding them as they study and question the experiencesand structures of vulnerability in our social world.