Description
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.
About the Author
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.
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Book Information
ISBN 9780230222748
Author B. Misztal
Format Hardback
Page Count 263
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
About the Author
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
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9780230222748
Author B. Misztal
Format Hardback
Page Count 263
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
