Melissa Tyler

How might vulnerability be rethought beyond its traditional associations with weakness and reimagined as the basis of solidarity? Across the world, there are unprecedented numbers of dispossessed people; rights and resources are increasingly inaccessible to those who need them most, and the responsibilities we have to one another are continually undermined and exploited. Referencing three sets of social relations -...

How might vulnerability be rethought beyond its traditional associations with weakness and reimagined as the basis of solidarity? Across the world, there are unprecedented numbers of dispossessed people; rights and resources are increasingly inaccessible to those who need them most, and the responsibilities we have to one another are continually undermined and exploited. Referencing three sets of social relations—breathing, grieving...