Vulnerability and the Politics of Care

Transdisciplinary Dialogues

Edited by Victoria Browne, Jason Danely, and Doerthe Rosenow

Proceedings of the British Academy

Creative cross-fertilization between different disciplinary methods, approaches and bodies of literature
Gives insights into questions of vulnerability and care from different geographical, cultural and political contexts
Themed Sections with responses: Sections allow for concentrated trans-disciplinary focus on theme, tied together with response/reflection at the end of each section
New work by leading scholars known outside of academia
The book engages with topics that are widely discussed and of interest in the public sphere and in academia

Vulnerability and the Politics of Care

Transdisciplinary Dialogues

Edited by Victoria Browne, Jason Danely, and Doerthe Rosenow

Proceedings of the British Academy

Description

Vulnerability is a fundamental aspect of existence, giving rise to the need for care in various forms. Yet we are not all vulnerable in the same way, and not all vulnerabilities are equally recognised or cared for. This transdisciplinary volume considers how vulnerability and care are shaped by relations of power within contemporary contexts of war, development, environmental degradation, sexual violence, aging populations and economic precarity.

It proposes that care for vulnerable populations or individuals is inseparable from other political processes of recognition, welfare, healthcare and security, whilst also exploring vulnerability as a shared, generative condition that makes caring possible. Ethnographic and narrative accounts of vulnerable life and caring relations in various geographical regions - including Japan, Uganda, Micronesia, Iraq, Mexico, the UK and the US - are interspersed with perspectives from philosophy, International Relations, social and cultural theory, and more, resulting in a compelling series of intellectual exchanges, creative frictions and provocative insights.

Vulnerability and the Politics of Care

Transdisciplinary Dialogues

Edited by Victoria Browne, Jason Danely, and Doerthe Rosenow

Proceedings of the British Academy

Bodies, Resistance, Despair
1:Bodies that Still Matter, JUDITH BUTLER
2:Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics, ROSALBA ICAZA
3:Meteorological Moods and Atmospheric Attunements, C. JASON THROOP
Response: The Terror of Invulnerability, RAHUL RAO
Ambiguity, Affectivity, Violence
4:The Problems and Potentials of Vulnerability, ERINN GILSON
5:Vulnerable Civilians: Coalition Checkpoints and the Perception of Hostile Intent, THOMAS GREGORY
6:Revealed in the Wound: Medical Care and the Ecologies of War in Post-Occupation Iraq, OMAR DEWACHI
Response: On the Condition of Being Open, VÉRONIQUE PIN-FAT
Narrative, Relationality, Disclosure
7:The politics of care: from biomedical transformation to narrative vulnerability, JACKIE LEACH SCULLY
8:"It rips you to bits!": Woundedness and Compassion in Carers' Narratives, JASON DANELY
9:Disclosing an Experience of Sexual Assault: Ethics and the Role of the Confidant, ANN CAHILL
Response: Tenuous Moorings, YASMIN GUNARATNAM
Dependence, Distribution, Waiting
10:Vulnerability as Radically Social: Cash and Care for the Elderly in Uganda, LOTTE MEINERT
11:Watchful Waiting: Temporalities of Crisis and Care in the UK: National Health Service, LISA BARAITSER AND WILLIAM BROOK
Response: The Hopeless Hopeful Time of Caring, TIFFANY PAGE
Index

Vulnerability and the Politics of Care

Transdisciplinary Dialogues

Edited by Victoria Browne, Jason Danely, and Doerthe Rosenow

Proceedings of the British Academy

Author Information

Edited by Victoria Browne, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University, Jason Danely, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Japan, Oxford Brookes University, and Doerthe Rosenow, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Oxford Brookes University

Victoria Browne is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, specialising in feminist theory and philosophy. Her books include Feminism, Time and Nonlinear History (Palgrave 2014), and she has published widely in journals such as Hypatia, Signs and Radical Philosophy. Currently, Victoria is working on a book exploring the politics and temporalities of pregnancy - a project supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. She is also co-editor of the journal Radical Philosophy.

Jason Danely's books include Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan (2014) and Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course (2013). Jason's work on aging and care in Japan has been published in anthropology journals, including Cultural Anthropology, Medicine Anthropology Theory, and Ethnos. He has conducted comparative research on unpaid caregivers of older family members in Japan and the UK and is currently working on older ex-offender resettlement in Japan supported by an SSRC Abe Fellowship.

Doerthe Rosenow is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Un-making Environmental Activism: Beyond Modern/Colonial Binaries in the GMO Controversy (Routledge 2017) and has published widely in the field of International Relations and related disciplines in journals such as Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology and Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. Her current research is on decolonial thought, settler colonialism and Indigenous writings. She is Associate Editor of the journal Security Dialogue.

Contributors:

Lisa Baraitser / Birkbeck, University of London.
Victoria Browne / Oxford Brookes University
William Brook / General Practitioner (GP) and GP Trainer
Judith Butler / University of California, Berkeley
Jason Danely / Oxford Brookes University
Ann J. Cahill / Elon University
Omar Dewachi / Rutgers University
Erinn Gilson / Merrimack College
Yasmin Gunaratnam / Goldsmiths, University of London
Thomas Gregory / University of Auckland, New Zealand
Rosalba Icaza / International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tiffany Page / UCL Institute of Education
Jackie Leach Scully / Disability Innovation Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Jason Throop / University of California, Los Angeles
Lotte Meinert / Aarhus University, Denmark
Véronique Pin-Fat / University of Manchester
Rahul Rao / SOAS University of London
Doerthe Rosenow / Oxford Brookes University