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Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The Challenges of Vulnerability
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Defining Vulnerability
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Confronting Vulnerability
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Conclusion: The Challenges of Vulnerability Reduction
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Back Matter
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"The Challenges of Vulnerability, is a timely and extremely valuable contribution to the current theoretical and political concern with vulnerability, especially in the advanced capitalist nation-states." - International Sociology
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
BARBARA MISZTAL is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK. She is the author of Public Intellectuals and the Public Good: Creativity and Courage, Trust in Modern Society, Informality, Social Theory and Contemporary Practice, and Social Theories of Remembering.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Challenges of Vulnerability
Book Subtitle: In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life
Authors: Barbara A. Misztal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230316690
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22274-8Published: 03 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30836-1Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-31669-0Published: 02 October 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 263
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology, general