TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macioce,Fabio
TI  - The Politics of Vulnerable Groups: Implications for Philosophy, Law, and Political Theory 
T2  - Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice,
SN  - 9783031075476
U1  - 320.01 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Political science
KW  - Law-Philosophy
KW  - Law-History
KW  - Political science-Philosophy
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Europe-Politics and government
KW  - Political Theory
KW  - Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
KW  - Political Philosophy
KW  - Critical Theory
KW  - European Politics
N1  - 1. Introduction -- 2. Vulnerability: What Are We Talking About? -- 3. The Vulnerable Groups and Their Legal Value -- 4. Towards a Theory of Group Vulnerability -- 5. Group Vulnerability and Parallel Dimensions -- 6.Group Vulnerability and Power -- 7. Vulnerability in a Positional Sense: The Case of Trials -- 8. Identity-Based Group Vulnerability: The Case of "Irregular" Migrants
N2  - This book describes and analyzes the conceptual ambiguity of vulnerability, in an effort to understand its particular applications for legal and political protection when relating to groups. Group vulnerability has become a common concept within legal and political scholarship but remains largely undertheorized as a phenomenon itself. At the same time, in academia and within legal circles, vulnerability is primarily understood as a phenomenon affecting individuals, and the attempts to identify vulnerable groups are discredited as essentialist and stereotypical. In contrast, this book demonstrates that a conception of group vulnerability is not only theoretically possible, but also politically and legally necessary. Two conceptions of group vulnerability are discussed: one focuses on systemic violence or oppression directed toward several individuals, while another requires a common positioning of individuals within a given context that conditions their agency, ability to cope with risks and uncertainties, and manage their consequences. By comparing these two definitions of group vulnerability and their implications, Macioce seeks a more precise delineation of the theoretical boundaries of the concept of group vulnerability. Fabio Macioce is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Bioethics at LUMSA University, School of Law, Italy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07547-6
ER  -