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The Challenges of Vulnerability: In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life
Barbara Anna Misztal
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Description for The Challenges of Vulnerability: In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230222748
SKU
V9780230222748
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99-15
About Barbara Anna Misztal
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.
Reviews for The Challenges of Vulnerability: In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life
"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