Preface

Vergès, Françoise

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“…Consider the vigour with which resistance movements are brought into establishment politics (e.g. as Vergès, 2019 illustrates with regards to “civilizational” feminism); from disobedience to reforming .…”

Section: The Ideological Dilemma Of Responding To Vulnerabilitymentioning

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From labelling weakness to liberatory praxis: a new theory of vulnerability for disaster studies

Meding

Chmutina

2023

DPM

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PurposeVulnerability is a label and a concept that is widely used in disaster studies. To date the meaning has been quite limited and implied “weakness”, with criticisms arising periodically but not halting vulnerability's reproduction. In this paper, the authors offer a new theory of vulnerability for the field, suggesting that complicating the concept can create space for liberatory discourse and organising.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw from diverse understandings of vulnerability to generate new conceptual ground for disaster scholars. The authors explore the relationships between power and agency and autonomy and social hierarchy with regards to how vulnerability is considered within neoliberal democracies. The authors also outline ideological responses and the political actions that follow.FindingsThis exploration is underpinned by dissatisfaction with the way that vulnerability has thus far been theorised in disaster studies. Using the analytical framings provided, the authors hope that others will build on the idea that so-called “vulnerable” people, working in solidarity and using intersecting frameworks of anti-racism, anti-colonialism and anti-capitalism, can undermine the risk-creating norms of the neoliberal state.Originality/valueThe authors argue that the dominant framing of vulnerability in disaster studies – and usage of the vulnerability paradigm – provides political traction for neoliberal social projects, based on notions of humanitarianism. The authors make this claim as a challenge to the authors and the authors' peers to maintain reflexive scholarship and search for liberatory potential, not only in vulnerability but in other concepts that have become normative.

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Section: The Ideological Dilemma Of Responding To Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

From labelling weakness to liberatory praxis: a new theory of vulnerability for disaster studies

Meding

Chmutina

2023

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“…This asks from psychologists to become aware of often subtle, excluding theories and methods, to decolonise their own minds, and to engage in actions. Like Françoise Vergès (2021) states in an interview: ‘A decolonial feminism is to facilitate a leap in imagination, to be convinced that there are alternatives, and that they are worth fighting for’. This implies to challenge thinking out-of-the-box.…”

Section: Decolonising Psychology Decolonising Societymentioning

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Decolonising Psychology: Reflections on Continuing Myopia

Hagenaars¹

2023

Psychology and Developing Societies

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“…However, Ken’s notion of conflict is very much modelled upon and closely tied to the idea of value clashes and culture wars. Cultural wars and moral panics have certainly been prominent in gender and sexual politics (see, Duggan and Hunter, 2006; Herdt, 2009; Rubin, 1989; ), but the focus on cultural values alone will not guide our understanding how gendered and sexual subjectivities are also shaped and regulated by structural divisions in society, as they manifest themselves, for example, around racial politics and capitalist accumulation and exploitation (Bohrer, 2019; Vergès, 2020, 2021). In my own work on LGBTQIA+ and CNM politics, I have often turned to the Black feminist notion of the ‘simultaneity of multiple oppressions’, a term aptly proposed by The Combahee River Collective (2017) to theorise the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and capitalism (Tate, 2023).…”

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Journeying with Ken Plummer through radical constructionism, critical humanism and intimate counterpublics

Klesse

2023

Sexualities

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Ken Plummer’s life work has had a major impact on the development of the sociology of sexuality. While being firmly rooted in and committed to the traditions of pragmatism and symbolic interactionism – which chimes nicely with his philosophical stance of critical humanism – Ken Plummer openly engaged in a critical dialogue with many theoretical perspectives. This renders his work a rich resource for researchers working on sexualities from within different paradigms. This paper engages in a critical appraisal of some of Plummer’s most significant concepts through autobiographical reflection on my personal experience of working with Ken Plummer as a PhD student, further tracing the influence his work has had on my own writing on consensual non-monogamies, LGBTQIA + activism and queer film festivals. Using autoethnography and memory work, the essay highlights the powerful potential residing in Plummer’s path-breaking contributions to social constructionism (script theory and narrative power), methodology (personal documents), narrative sociology (sexual stories), critical humanism (dialogical ethics and cosmopolitan sexualities) and political sociology (intra-movement conflict, intimate citizenship, counterpublics and age standpoints). The essay argues that these ideas – and Plummer’s overall legacy as a scholar and theorist – bear a strong significance for future research in sexuality studies.

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Cited by 16 publications

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From labelling weakness to liberatory praxis: a new theory of vulnerability for disaster studies

From labelling weakness to liberatory praxis: a new theory of vulnerability for disaster studies

Decolonising Psychology: Reflections on Continuing Myopia

Journeying with Ken Plummer through radical constructionism, critical humanism and intimate counterpublics

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