Vulnerability and its politicsPrecarity and the woundedness of power
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Type | Article |
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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1402-1418 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 6 |
Early online date | 24 Nov 2020 |
DOI | |
Publication status | Published - 01 Dec 2021 |
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Abstract
This article is an attempt to unwrite our current disciplinary enamourment with power. We begin from life’s woundedness, which we argue engenders a limit condition that both precedes power (vulnerability is the origin of power) and exceeds power (no power can ever resolve the problem of woundedness). To illustrate this, we introduce the ‘politics of the wound’: a perspective on politics that begins, not from a pre-existing ontology of forces and relations, but from the condition of striving, in infinitely generous and yet fragile ways, to claim sovereignty against the incurable wound of being a living being.
Keywords
- non-relational, non-representational theory, ontology, politics of wound, power, precarity, vulnerability, woundedness
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