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Being vulnerable : contemporary political thought /
"We are living in a time of heightened vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, Black Lives Matter to Me Too, and safe spaces to trigger warnings--and let's not forget the pandemic: in each of these phenomena, homo vulnerabilis is coming to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Outspoken (McGill-Queen's University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "We are living in a time of heightened vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, Black Lives Matter to Me Too, and safe spaces to trigger warnings--and let's not forget the pandemic: in each of these phenomena, homo vulnerabilis is coming to terms with the fact that they can be wounded and die. Against this, sovereignty is reasserting itself as a phantasm that might save us. Sovereignty traditionally implies invulnerability. This manuscript proposes to resolve the apparent opposition between vulnerability and sovereignty, bringing political theories of sovereignty into conversation with vulnerability studies. It contains three parts: a theoretical section, in which a coherent selection of twentieth- and twenty-first century texts on sovereignty are considered in view of our contemporary political situation of extreme vulnerability; a second section on four paradigms of sovereignty today: the camp, the wall, the police, and the drone. Finally a third section on the work of black studies scholars, left liberal feminist thinkers, and scholars of indigenous politics proposes a rethinking of sovereignty that moves away from the phantasm of invulnerability that it projects. The argument is that doing so can open up the concept of sovereignty towards an emancipatory and progressive future, away from its contemporary conservative appropriations."-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 206 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780228016298 0228016290 9780228016304 0228016304 |