Organizing Vulnerability
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2026
176 pages
978-1-5292-3897-6 (ISBN)
Description
How might vulnerability be rethought beyond its traditional associations with weakness and reimagined as the basis of solidarity?
Across the world, there are unprecedented numbers of dispossessed people; rights and resources are increasingly inaccessible to those who need them most, and the responsibilities we have to one another are continually undermined and exploited.
Referencing three sets of social relations - breathing, grieving and appearing, this book examines how recognition of our shared but always socially situated vulnerability could be the basis for organizing our lives in ways that better support relationality, solidarity and care, now and for the future.
Across the world, there are unprecedented numbers of dispossessed people; rights and resources are increasingly inaccessible to those who need them most, and the responsibilities we have to one another are continually undermined and exploited.
Referencing three sets of social relations - breathing, grieving and appearing, this book examines how recognition of our shared but always socially situated vulnerability could be the basis for organizing our lives in ways that better support relationality, solidarity and care, now and for the future.
Reviews / Votes
"A careful, evocative and theoretically astute examination of vulnerability and how we can organize to better support relationality, solidarity and care. Melissa Tyler takes us on a beautifully written journey through breathing, grieving and ocularity that leads us to where we need to be, and it is through radical vulnerability that we can embark on a path to more workable lives", Sheena J. Vachhani, University of Bristol. "We are all vulnerable throughout our lives and could never survive without each other. But nobody analyses the uneven, situational effects of our interdependence better than Melissa Tyler, who covers brilliantly all we need to change to create genuine human flourishing. Everybody should read this erudite, compelling book. I relished every page", Lynne Segal, author of Lean on Me.More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen
Not illustrated
File size
1,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-3897-6 (9781529238976)
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Person
Melissa Tyler is a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the University of Essex
Content
Introduction
1. Vulnerability and/as Organization
2. Existing: The Social Relations of Breathing
3. Enduring: The Social Relations of Grieving
4. Enacting: The Social Relations of Appearing
5. Radical Vulnerability: Organizing for Workable Lives
1. Vulnerability and/as Organization
2. Existing: The Social Relations of Breathing
3. Enduring: The Social Relations of Grieving
4. Enacting: The Social Relations of Appearing
5. Radical Vulnerability: Organizing for Workable Lives
