Vulnerability, Law, and the Married Family

Gordon-Bouvier, Ellen

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“…While the outcome is ethically driven, we operationalise our RPP partnerships in a way that attends to the relational; values the experiences of those who find themselves in situations of vulnerability and/or marginalisation; and demonstrates care towards those with whom we work. Our work is underpinned by the concepts of relational vulnerability ( 37 ), ethics of care, relational ethics, and an ethics of recognition ( 38–40 ). We apply these concepts in a way that is intentional and responsive to the situation of the other.…”

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REALITIES in health disparities: Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems

de Andrade

2024

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionUnder the backdrop of pervasive health inequalities, public health professionals, researchers and non-academic partners in the United Kingdom are mobilising to understand how and in what ways community assets can address health disparities at scale in complex systems. While there is recognition that cultural, natural and community resources can improve health outcomes, these are unequally dispersed with lack of integration in communities and health and social care systems. Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems (REALITIES) is a participatory action research Scottish consortium of 57 with established community asset hubs in five localities with strong relationships uniting conflicting ways of seeing the world. Our collective of lived and felt experience community members, community-embedded researchers, academics and non-academics draws upon a variety of practices, methods, datasets and philosophies to expand existing approaches to tackling health inequalities.MethodsWe present conceptual and theoretical underpinnings for our co-produced systems-level model and empirical findings from testing REALITIES across three disadvantaged localities (November 2022, ongoing). After explaining the context that led to the development of the new scalable REALITIES model for integrated public systems to interface with ‘assets’, we detail philosophical pillars and guiding principles for our model and how we applied these mechanisms to explain how integrated partnership working can lead to improved health outcomes across multiple public systems.ResultsWe present a meta-analysis from co-producing and testing the model, showing how measuring change in complex public systems involves critical investigation of People, Process, Place, Price, Power and Purpose. Our critique reflects on power imbalances and inequities in Research-practice-Policy (RPP) partnerships and suggestions for how to nurture healthy ecosystems: overcoming barriers and enabling participation; reflecting on challenges of scaling up, testability and complexity of RPP partnerships; moving from siloed learning to transdisciplinary collaboration in practice; ensuring knowledge exchange has direct impact on communities and frontline practitioners; embedding relational ethics and safeguarding into daily practice.DiscussionWe propose the REALITIES model to unite alternative, sometimes conflicting, ways of thinking about public systems and community assets by continuously reflecting on entanglements between different assumptions about knowledge, reality, evidence, and unnecessary binaries between creative methodologies and scientific method.

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REALITIES in health disparities: Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems

de Andrade

2024

Front. Public Health

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“…While vulnerability has been theorised extensively, not least in human rights (Heikkilä 2020;Timmer, 2013), family (Gordon-Bouvier, 2021;Mant and Wallbank, 2017;Wallbank and Herring, 2013) and health law contexts (Lindsey, 2019;Travis, 2019), it remains under theorised in a criminal law scholarship. Where such analysis exists, it has predominantly focused on how vulnerability has been used against women to advance paternalistic agendas regarding sexual assault and sex work (Munro 2017;Munro and Scoular, 2012) or addressed responses to vulnerability in the criminal justice process (Brown, 2014;Dehaghani, 2021).…”

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The Vulnerable (M)other and the Autonomous Legal Subject: Rethinking Vulnerability in Criminal Law

Singh

2023

International Journal of Law in Context

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In this article I apply Fineman’s vulnerability thesis to explore the ways in which vulnerability is constructed and mobilised in a criminal law context. Using a ‘failure-to-protect’ offence as a case study reveals contemporary constructs of vulnerability as both a problem to be solved and gendered. Constructing women as pathologically vulnerable allows the state and its institutions to downplay the situational vulnerability of women, evading responsibility for tackling VAWG. Responsibilising women to manage risks to children posed by male violence requires that women undertake ‘safety work’, rendering them vulnerable to both moral and legal sanction if not performed adequately. Replacing the autonomous subject with the relationally vulnerable subject generates new understandings of the ways entwining femininity and vulnerability shores up the (male-coded) autonomous legal subject. Moreover, reconceiving vulnerability as universal reveals the potential of the vulnerable subject for a more inclusive criminal subject who is both embedded and embodied.

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Vulnerability, Law, and the Married Family

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REALITIES in health disparities: Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems

REALITIES in health disparities: Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems

The Vulnerable (M)other and the Autonomous Legal Subject: Rethinking Vulnerability in Criminal Law

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