Erinn Cunniff Gilson's research while affiliated with University of North Florida and other places
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Publications (4)
This essay elaborates how an imbalanced reciprocity between inhabitants of places of relative safety and places of greater precarity results from pursuing security on the basis of a reactive fear of vulnerability. It analyzes a range of features that shape the complex forms that vulnerability takes with a particular focus on how the constitution of...
Vulnerability is both a vexing and vital concept for feminist theorizing about sexual violence and victimization. The concept is widely perceived as problematic because of the way it is associated both with femininity and femaleness and with dependency, weakness, susceptibility to harm, and violability. That is, vulnerability is thought to connote...
This article articulates how core concepts in feminist ethical and social theory such as vulnerability, relationality, and dependency are central for understanding both injustices in contemporary food systems and how best to pursue food justice. It argues that denials of dependency, relationality, and vulnerability take the form of normal, but ethi...
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... I discuss vulnerability not in terms of harm, violence, or infraction, but as an openness that, while an ineluctable dimension of embodied existence, is always and everywhere expressed and experienced in concrete conditions. This draws upon feminist uptake of work by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Gilson 2014(Gilson , 2018Shildrick 2012;Weiss 2017). Vulnerability is an indeterminate bodily potential that is actualised differently according to what relations are formed. ...
Reference: Disability, Vulnerability, & Debility
... Vulnerability, as a concept, is characterized by inner contradictions. On one hand, it refers to the universal capacity of people to be physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt by something (Bost 2008;Gilson 2016;Lagerkvist and Andersson 2017). On the other hand, vulnerability tends to accumulate. ...
... A relational and caring model for agriculture requires rejecting the idea of food as a commodity and reconceiving food as a relational concept. An agriculture based on attentiveness to the local ecology as a model -but also what Care Theorists recognize -the relational nature of humans (Gilson, 2015). ...
