Organizing Vulnerability, livre ebook

• Draws from and develops insights from feminist writers, philosophers and post-colonial thinkers including Judith Butler, Lynne Segal, Adriana Caverero, Hannah Arendt and Achille Mbembe.

• Ideal for International academic researchers and students of organisational theory and sociology involved with critical management studies, GWO (Gender, Work and Organisation) particularly their Judith Butler network, and the British Sociology Association WEEL group (Work, Employment and Economic Life).

• High-quality research written by the most influential scholar in the field, who has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, showing that this book can appeal to a broader audience with potential to influence future works and studies.

How might vulnerability be rethought beyond its traditional associations with weakness and reimagined as the basis for 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.

Introduction: Being Vulnerable in Relation to One Another

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