On Vulnerability: A Critical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780367366612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Patrick Brown

Opis

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different social groups, alongside the everyday social processes which make us vulnerable – interactions, identity and group dynamics.

O autorze

Patrick Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He studies how individuals, groups and organisations manage their vulnerability amid uncertainty, for example, through risk, trust, hope, faith and everyday rituals, and the difficulties they encounter in doing so.