Clashing Vulnerabilities, Disability and Conflict

This book is about how we might think about vulnerability-what it is and how it operates-by looking at cases where different kinds of vulnerabilities clash.

Don Kulick is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University and Visiting Chair Professor at Hong Kong University. Simo Vehmas is Professor of Special Education at Stockholm University.

0.Introduction - Clashing Vulnerabilities. 1.Curb clash: Blindness, wheelchairs, and tactile paving. 2.Embodied vulnerability vs. capitalist privilege. 3.Freedom vs. disability. 4.Rights vs. wrong: Debates about sex and disability. 5.Grassroots disability movement vs. Disability organizations. 6.French teachers vs. disabled students. 7.Long Covid vs. Functional Neurological Disorder: punching down. 8.Day centre staff vs. service users during the Covid-19 pandemic. 9.Inherent vs. contingent vulnerabilities in the care for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.