Overview
- Demonstrates how group vulnerability sheds light on conditions of oppression that would not otherwise be perceived
- Argues that oppression and related mechanisms of power are made more visible under the lens of group vulnerability
- Analyzes how group vulnerability can be used to justify the recognition and guarantee of specific rights
Part of the book series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice (CPTRP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book describes and analyzes the conceptual ambiguity of vulnerability, in an effort to understand its particular applications for legal and political protection when relating to groups. Group vulnerability has become a common concept within legal and political scholarship but remains largely undertheorized as a phenomenon itself. At the same time, in academia and within legal circles, vulnerability is primarily understood as a phenomenon affecting individuals, and the attempts to identify vulnerable groups are discredited as essentialist and stereotypical. In contrast, this book demonstrates that a conception of group vulnerability is not only theoretically possible, but also politically and legally necessary. Two conceptions of group vulnerability are discussed: one focuses on systemic violence or oppression directed toward several individuals, while another requires a common positioning of individuals within a given context that conditions their agency, ability to cope with risks and uncertainties, and manage their consequences. By comparing these two definitions of group vulnerability and their implications, Macioce seeks a more precise delineation of the theoretical boundaries of the concept of group vulnerability.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Fabio Macioce is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Bioethics at LUMSA University, School of Law, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Vulnerable Groups
Book Subtitle: Implications for Philosophy, Law, and Political Theory
Authors: Fabio Macioce
Series Title: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07547-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07546-9Published: 03 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07549-0Published: 04 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07547-6Published: 02 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-6580
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 197
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, European Politics