B. Misztal

Gebundenes Buch

The Challenges of Vulnerability

In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-22274-8
• 2011 edition
• Seitenzahl: 263
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780230222748
• ISBN-10: 0230222749
• Artikelnr.: 33610833

Rezensionen

"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