All of Us Are Vulnerable, But Some Are More Vulnerable than Others: The Political Ambiguity of Vulnerability Studies, an Ambivalent Critique
All of Us Are Vulnerable, But Some Are More Vulnerable than Others: The Political Ambiguity of Vulnerability Studies, an Ambivalent Critique
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10.1080/14409917.2016.1153896
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
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0.4
通讯作者：
Cole, Alyson
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作者：
Cole, Alyson
本文提出了几个关注的脆弱性作为一种替代语言的概念化不公正和政治化其伴随的伤害。首先，我认为，通过强调“脆弱性”的普遍性和扩大其生成能力来重新定义“脆弱性”的项目可能会淡化对不平等的看法，混淆具体脆弱性之间的重要区别，以及那些可伤害的人和那些已经受伤的人之间的区别。此外，研究脆弱性的学者尚未详细阐述从承认构成脆弱性到解决具体不公正现象的途径。第二，脆弱性研究回应了1980年代和1990年代关于压迫、身份和机构的辩论，并受到这些辩论的影响。这个家谱需要得到承认和评估。正如我所展示的，杰出的理论家将脆弱性定义为与受害相反，采用了新自由主义的受害者和受害者身份。最后，我要谈谈脆弱性政治。问题不仅仅是实用性或实施方案的问题，而是本体论，伦理学和政治之间令人担忧的关系，我通过与Ranciere的政治概念和黑人生命物质运动的案例进行接触来解决这个问题。
This paper raises several concerns about vulnerability as an alternative language to conceptualize injustice and politicize its attendant injuries. First, the project of resignifying "vulnerability" by emphasizing its universality and amplifying its generative capacity, I suggest, might dilute perceptions of inequality and muddle important distinctions among specific vulnerabilities, as well as differences between those who are injurable and those who are already injured. Vulnerability scholars, moreover, have yet to elaborate the path from acknowledging constitutive vulnerability to addressing concrete injustices. Second, vulnerability studies respond to, and have been shaped by, debates in the 1980s and 1990s over oppression, identity and agency. This genealogy needs to be acknowledged and evaluated. As I demonstrate, prominent theorists define vulnerability in contradistinction to victimization, adopting neo-liberal formulations of victims and victimhood. Finally, I turn to address the politics of vulnerability. At issue are not simply matters of utility or programmes for implementation, but the fraught relationship among ontology, ethics and politics, which I address through an engagement with Ranciere's conception of the political and the case of the Black Lives Matter movement.