A (brief and not extremely systematic) approach to the notion of agency from vulnerability
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20-03-2019
María Martínez
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9337-3225
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.
How to Cite
Martínez, M. (2019). A (brief and not extremely systematic) approach to the notion of agency from vulnerability. Papeles De Identidad, 2019(1), presentación. https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.20616
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Keywords
agency, vulnerability, paradox
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Butler, J. (2009). Frames of war. London & NY: Verso.
Butler, J. (2015). Notes toward a performative theory of assembly. USA: Harvard College.
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Châtel, V., y Soulet, M-H. (Eds.) (2003). Agir en situation de vulnérabilité. Laval: PUL.
Das, V. et al. (2008). Sujetos de dolor, agentes de dignidad. Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Dubet, F. (2010). Sociología de la experiencia. Madrid: CIS y Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
García Selgas, F. (2016). Pensar la agencia en crisis: de la acción y la agencia a la actancia. En B. Tejerina y G. Gatti (Eds.), Pensar la agencia en la crisis (pp. 83-102). Madrid: CIS.
Gatti, G. (2016). La hipótesis V. Las víctimas y su victoria sobre el poderoso (y muy agencial) ciudadano. En B. Tejerina y G. Gatti (Eds.), Pensar la agencia en la crisis (pp. 145-164). Madrid: CIS.
Gatti, G. (2017). Un mundo de víctimas. Barcelona: Anthropos-Siglo XXI.
Gatti, G., y Martínez, M. (2017). El ciudadano-víctima. Notas para iniciar un debate. Revista de Estudios Sociales, 59, 8-14.
Gilson, Erinn (2014). The ethics of vulnerability: a feminist analysis of social life and practice. NY: Routledge.
Irazuzta, I. (2017). Aparecer desaparecidos en el norte de México: las identidades de la búsqueda. En G. Gatti (Ed.), Desapariciones. Usos locales, circulaciones globales (pp. 141-162). Bogotá: Siglo del Hombre Editores y Universidad de los Andes.
Jokinen, E. (2016). Precarious everyday agency. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 19(1), 85-99.
Lefranc, S., y Mathieu, L. (2009). Mobilisations de victimes. Rennes: PUR.
Mahmood, S. (2005). Politics of piety. The Islamic revival and the feminist subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Mathieu, L. (2001). Mobilisations de prostituées. Paris: Belin.
Piven, F., y Cloward, R. (1979). Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. Nueva York: Vintage.
Rancière, J. (1995). La mésentente. Paris: Galilée.
Rancière, J. (2009). El reparto de lo sensible. Estética y política. Santiago de Chile: LOM.
Soulet, M-H. (2005). La vulnérabilité comme catégorie de l'action publique". Pensée plurielle, 2(10), 49-59.
Spivak, G. (1988). Can the Subaltern Speak?. En C. Nelson y L. Grossberg (Eds.), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (pp. 271-313). Basingstoke: Macmillan Educat.
Weheliye, A.G. (2014). Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human. Durham: Duke University Press.
Wynter, S. (2003). Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument. The New Centennial Review, 3(3), 257-337.
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