Relational Vulnerability

Theory, Law and the Private Family
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-61360-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 347 g

Reihe: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

This book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of ‘relational vulnerability’ through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or ‘dependency-work’, in the context of the private family. Expanding on existing socio-legal scholarship on vulnerability and resilience, it charts how the state seeks to conceal the embodied and temporal reality of vulnerability and dependency within the private family, while promoting an artificial concept of autonomous personhood that exposes dependency-workers work to a range of harms. The book argues that the legal framework governing the married and unmarried family reinforces principles of individualism and rationality, while labelling dependency-work as a private, gendered, and sentimental endeavor, lacking value beyond the family. It also considers how the state can respond to relational vulnerability and foster resilience. It seeks to provide a more comprehensive understanding of resilience, theorising its normative goals and applying these to different hypothetical state responses.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon-Bouvier, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Chapter 1: Introducing Relational Vulnerability.- Chapter 2: Embodiment, Temporality and the Private Family.- Chapter 3: Relational Vulnerability: Economic, Psychological, Spatial.- Chapter 4: Vulnerability, Law and the Married Family.- Chapter 5: Vulnerability, Law and the Unmarried Family.- Chapter 6: Theorising Resilience.- Chapter 7: Imagining the Responsive State.- Chapter: 8 Concluding Thoughts.

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen Gordon-Bouvier is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Oxford Brookes University, UK