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Vulnerability: An Interdisciplinary Trialogue
The term vulnerability has gained increasing popularity in academia as well as in political and everyday discourse. This popularity fosters the vagueness and multiplicity of the term vulnerability within and between different academic disciplines. What is missing is an interdisciplinary exchange on what vulnerability is (ontology of vulnerability), how it can be studied (methodology of vulnerability) and why and how it has become the object of public conflicts (political implications of vulnerability). The interdisciplinary trialogue at the heart of this special section addresses these questions from different philosophical and social science perspectives. In their articles, the three authors, Elodie Boublil, Erinn Gilson and Kate Brown, draw on their pertinent contributions to vulnerability studies to outline their respective responses to these questions and comment on each other’s arguments. The trialogue focusses on the complementarities of the approaches, that can, for example, be seen in their focus on the lived-through experience, their methodology that intends to take into account different perspectives, and the contentious polysemy of vulnerability. These complementarities are explored in more detail by the guest editors in their concluding article of the special section.
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CONTACT: For any questions, please directly contact the Guest Editors Frithjof Nungesser, email and Antonia Schirgi email
Editors
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Frithjof Nungesser
Frithjof Nungesser is lecturer and Privatdozent in the Dept. of Sociology at the University of Graz and Visiting Researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. He earned his PhD from the Univ. of Graz and the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies in Erfurt in 2017 and his habilitation in sociology from the Univ. of Graz in 2021. Between 2020 and 2023 he was APART-GSK-fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focusses on pragmatist social theory, Durkheimian sociology, human-animal relations, and phenomena of violence and vulnerability. e-mail: frithjof.nungesser@uni-graz.at
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Antonia Schirgi
Antonia Schirgi is Post-Doc at the Department of Sociology at the Univ. of Graz. In her PhD she worked on a social theory of social interaction at a distance based on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. She had research stays at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, the Université Paris 1: Panthéon-Sorbonne and Humboldt University in Berlin. She holds a MA in sociology and a MA in philosophy. Her research focusses on social theory, French phenomenology, accounts of interaction and social practices, the concepts of ambiguity and ambivalence as well as on processes of deliberative democracy. e-mail: antonia.schirgi@uni-graz.at
