Introduction
1. Vulnerability as deviance and stigma
2. When ‘normal’ people become vulnerable
3. The intersectionality of vulnerability
4. Understanding vulnerability through the lens of risk
5. Trust, hope, magic and the paradox of vulnerability
6. The vulnerable body
7. Vulnerability to suffering
8. Ethical concerns in researching vulnerability, as inseparable from methodological and analytical considerations
Conclusions: Three types of knowledge around vulnerability
Biography
Patrick Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He studies how individuals, groups and organisations manage their vulnerability amid uncertainty, for example, through risk, trust, hope, faith and everyday rituals, and the difficulties they encounter in doing so.
