future? The present? The past?” This interrogation of harm's temporality, paired with scenes from the ceremonial protection of land and water at the Standing Rock / #NoDAPL camps in 2016–2017, demonstrate what we call the “double force of vulnerability
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The Double Force of Vulnerability
Ethnography and Environmental Justice
Grant M. Gutierrez, Dana E. Powell, and T. L. Pendergrast
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- 66–86 (21 total)
Vulnerable homes on the move
An introduction
Sara Bonfanti, Shuhua Chen, and Aurora Massa
“Stay Home, Save Lives!”, a political slogan employed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, has compelled many of us to rethink received notions regarding human mobility and vulnerability. Rather than simply asking what we mean by home, we now must
Katharina Seebaß
Bolte 2004 ; Mohai and Bryant 1992 ). Many studies have linked (social) vulnerability, that is, the ability of an individual to be resistant and resilient to climate hazards, to climate change and environmental hazards (see, e.g., Cutter et al. 2003
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 137–161 (25 total)
Automobility and Oil Vulnerability
Unfairness as Critical to Energy Transitions
Ana Horta
, scholars have increasingly used the framework of energy justice to investigate the implementation of sustainable energy transitions and climate policies, based on the claim that these may aggravate forms of social inequity and vulnerability ( Bickerstaff et
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- 134–145 (12 total)
The Biologically Vulnerable Boy
Framing Sex Differences in Childhood Infectious Disease Mortality
Heather T. Battles
). This concept of male frailty has come together in modern biology in what Roland Pongou (2013 , 2015) terms “the biological hypothesis.” The current health literature (i.e., since the 1980s) generally accepts male biological vulnerability as a given
Liza Grandia
years in Q'eqchi’ Maya communities and fully recognize that as a tenured cultural anthropologist with US citizenship I also embody other sets of geopolitical and intellectual privilege. My vulnerabilities, however, present a point of departure to one of
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- 203–226 (24 total)
“All we need is a home”
Eviction, vulnerability, and the struggle for a home by migrants from the Horn of Africa in Rome
Aurora Massa
privileged viewpoint from which to explore the nexus between home and vulnerability at the core of the theme section containing this contribution. This article illustrates how people faced a moment of extreme vulnerability within a situation of protracted
Victoria C. Ramenzoni and David Yoskowitz
(FEMA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have all prioritized the development of metrics of community vulnerability, resilience, and well-being (Biedenweg et al
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Jan 2017
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Visualising Resilience
Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde
Pramod K. Nayar
suffering and the costs of war, is also a chronicler of human resilience. In his case, however, resilience as he ‘draws’ and defines it serves a political purpose, and this is the subject of the present article. Examining the dialectic of vulnerability and
Anxious Breath
An Autoethnographic Exploration of Non-binary Queerness, Vulnerability, and Recognition in Step Out
Lara Bochmann and Erin Hampson
“vulnerability”; if it is defined as the ability to conform to normative ideals, then some bodies are constructed as more vulnerable than others ( Butler 2015 ). Vulnerability also plays a crucial role as locus of hurt and connection when navigating life in a