A (brief and not extremely systematic) approach to the notion of agency from vulnerability

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Published 20-03-2019
María Martínez

Abstract

This text presents the special issue "Agencies from situations of vulnerability". This presentation and the articles of this special issue challenge the hegemonic notion of vulnerability that denies agency and invite to think about what happens when vulnerability and agency are confronted. The result is the need to re-think the notion of agency, and along with it, the concepts of action and subject of action. Besides Saba Mahmood's work that is gathered in the fundamentals section, the issue assembles the contribution from Paola Rebughini, Jane Freedman, Itziar Gandarias, María Santacruz Giralt, Ariana S. Cota, Aurora Álvarez Veinguer and Luca Sebastiani, and Carolina Meloni. The critical paper by Álvaro Villar Baile also joins the issue.
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Keywords

agency, vulnerability, paradox

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