Guest Editor's Introduction: Vulnerability and Inquiring into Relationality

of vulnerability as it is currently perceived mainly in social sciences, ethics, philosophy, queer studies and governmentality. Used both as descriptive and normative term, vulnerability, along with resilience and policy management, has acquired political dimensions, which are distant from those giv...

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Main Author: Marja-Liisa Honkasalo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Suomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society) 2019-06-01
Series:Suomen Antropologi
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/82725
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description of vulnerability as it is currently perceived mainly in social sciences, ethics, philosophy, queer studies and governmentality. Used both as descriptive and normative term, vulnerability, along with resilience and policy management, has acquired political dimensions, which are distant from those given by the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas. In present day social and political discussions vulnerability has gained enormous popularity and seems to be a genuine 'sticky concept', an adhesive cluster of heterogeneous conceptual elements.
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spelling doaj.art-9f41fdef856e45d9a69c5d71a96718682022-12-21T22:01:26ZengSuomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society)Suomen Antropologi1799-89721799-89722019-06-0143312110.30676/jfas.v43i3.82725Guest Editor's Introduction: Vulnerability and Inquiring into RelationalityMarja-Liisa Honkasalo0University of Helsinkiof vulnerability as it is currently perceived mainly in social sciences, ethics, philosophy, queer studies and governmentality. Used both as descriptive and normative term, vulnerability, along with resilience and policy management, has acquired political dimensions, which are distant from those given by the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas. In present day social and political discussions vulnerability has gained enormous popularity and seems to be a genuine 'sticky concept', an adhesive cluster of heterogeneous conceptual elements.https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/82725vulnerabilityresiliencegovernmentalityintersectionalityracismqueervulnerable agencysticky concept
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Guest Editor's Introduction: Vulnerability and Inquiring into Relationality
Suomen Antropologi
vulnerability
resilience
governmentality
intersectionality
racism
queer
vulnerable agency
sticky concept
title Guest Editor's Introduction: Vulnerability and Inquiring into Relationality
title_full Guest Editor's Introduction: Vulnerability and Inquiring into Relationality
title_fullStr Guest Editor's Introduction: Vulnerability and Inquiring into Relationality
title_full_unstemmed Guest Editor's Introduction: Vulnerability and Inquiring into Relationality
title_short Guest Editor's Introduction: Vulnerability and Inquiring into Relationality
title_sort guest editor s introduction vulnerability and inquiring into relationality
topic vulnerability
resilience
governmentality
intersectionality
racism
queer
vulnerable agency
sticky concept
url https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/82725
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