Vulnerability and the Politics of Care Transdisciplinary Dialogues

by Browne, Victoria; Danely, Jason; Rosenow, Doerthe

• ISBN13: 9780197266830
• ISBN10: 0197266835
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-03-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Victoria Browne, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University,Jason Danely, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Japan, Oxford Brookes University,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.

Table of Contents

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 V?RONIQUE PIN-FAT
Narrative, Relationality, Disclosure
7. The politics of care: from biomedical transformation to narrative vulnerability, JACKIE 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