The Politics of Vulnerability (Paperback, 1)

Introduction: Vulnerability: A Concept with Which to Undo the World As It Is? Estelle Ferrarese 1. The Rise of Uncertainties Robert Castel 2. The Boundaries of the "We:" Cruelty, Responsibility and Forms of Life Veena Das 3. "On the Whole We Don’t:" Michel Foucault, Veena Das and Sexual Violence Penelope Deutscher 4. Politics of Vulnerability and Responsibility for Ordinary Others Sandra Laugier 5. The Vulnerable and the Political: On the Seeming Impossibility of Thinking Vulnerability and the Political Together and Its ConsequencesEstelle Ferrarese 6. Accounts of Injury as Misappropriations of Race: Towards a Critical Black Politics of Vulnerability Noemi Michel 7. All of Us Are Vulnerable, But Some Are More Vulnerable than Others: The Political Ambiguity of Vulnerability Studies, an Ambivalent Critique Alyson Cole