Surviving Identity

McLaughlin, Kenneth

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“…However, in policy at least, these tend to remain focussed at individual level rather than on national or transnational economic, political forces, or on large cultural changes affecting the whole of society. Whilst some activists and social movements have regarded the identification of vulnerability as an important means of obtaining external, usually state-sponsored, protection for certain individuals or groups (see McLaughlin, 2012), others associate ideas about innate or situational vulnerability as a pervasive form of ‘victim blaming’ (Wishart, 2003), focussing attention on individual deficit rather than wider structural issues and problems.…”

Section: Vulnerability As Designation: Normative Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such writings connect understandings and uses of vulnerability, whether by the state or as part of a progressive politics, with an intensification of social control (Furedi, 2008; Mclaughlin, 2012; Ecclestone and Lewis, 2014; Ecclestone, 2016), playing a role in facilitating a wrestling of power from receivers of services. Behavioural dimensions of vulnerability management techniques have been highlighted as having important implications for questions of ‘difference’; for example, forms of social control expressed through vulnerability rationales in policy and practice might be gendered, raced, classed and ableist within a deeply unequal society (see Harrison with Hemingway, 2014).…”

Section: Vulnerability and Social Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moral and ethical dimensions of vulnerability are shaped by diverse political standpoints. Certain scholars have noted that the term is creeping further into understandings of the relations between state and citizen, with implications for citizenship such as diminished view of the human subject, erosion of collective movements and expansion of state-sponsored social control (Furedi, 2008; McLaughlin, 2012; Ecclestone, 2016). Others have emphasised its relevance in discussion and the operation of interventions for the most disadvantaged, and the sometimes problematic implications of this in terms of exclusivity (Brown, 2011, 2015).…”

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The Many Faces of Vulnerability

Brown¹,

Ecclestone²,

Emmel³

2017

Social Policy & Society

165

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Social injustices, structural and personal crises as well as intensifying stress on some citizens seem increasing preoccupations in contemporary society and social policy. In this context, the concept of vulnerability has come to play a prominent role in academic, governmental and everyday accounts of the human condition. Policy makers and practitioners are now concerned with addressing vulnerability through an expansive range of interventions. As this special issue draws attention to, a vulnerability zeitgeist or ‘spirit of the time’ has been traced in contemporary welfare and disciplinary arrangements (Brown, 2014, 2015), which now informs a range of interventions and approaches to social problems, both in the UK and internationally. As prominent examples, ‘vulnerable’ people are legally entitled to ‘priority need’ in English social housing allocations (Carr and Hunter, 2008), vulnerable victims of crime are seen as requiring special responses in the UK criminal justice system (see Roulstoneet al., 2011; Walkgate, 2011), ‘vulnerable adults’ have designated ‘protections’ under British law (Dunnet al., 2008; Clough, 2014) and vulnerable migrants and refugees are increasingly prioritised within international immigration processes (Peroni and Timmer, 2013). There is a long tradition in the field of social policy of critiquing the implications of particular concepts as mechanisms of governance, from poverty (Townsend, 1979; Lister, 2004) and social exclusion (Levitas, 1998; Young 1999) to risk (Beck, 1992; Kemshall, 2002) and resilience (Ecclestone and Lewis, 2014; Wright, 2016). Yet while vulnerability seems to be one of the latest buzzwords gathering political and cultural momentum, critiques and empirical studies of how it is operationalised in different policy and practice contexts are less well elaborated.

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Section: Vulnerability As Designation: Normative Dimensionsmentioning

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“…The majority of the APIs were exported to pharmaceutical manufacturers outside China. 33 Currently, only a few medicines and testing kids from China for HIV and malaria were approved by the U.S. FDA or WHO. Even though China produces a sufficient supply of 48 vaccines for 28 diseases for its 1.3 billion population, only one vaccine (Japanese encephalitis) has been prequalified by WHO.…”

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Implications of U.S.-China Collaborations on Global Health Issues

Bouey¹

2019

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China Economic and Security Review Commission, for inviting me to testify today. My testimony on China and global health will have five sections: The first provides a brief history of China's engagement with global health assistance in the pre-market reforms era (1950s to 1980s). The second summarizes China's current global health activities and their impact (1980s to the present). The third describes the Chinese government's motivations and future plans for global health. The fourth focuses on past U.S.-China collaborations in global health and their different strategies. The fifth and the final section contains suggestions for actions U.S. policymakers could take to address the challenges associated with China's global health activities. China and Global Health in the Pre-Market Reform Decades (1950s-1980s) If we accept the goals for global health that Robert Beaglehole and Ruth Bonita suggested in 2010 as "actions for promoting health for all," 3 then China's most significant contribution to global health indexes is arguably its own success in the domestic public health program that reduced mortality, increased life expectancy, and built a comprehensive health system for 1.3 billion Chinese. China's growth in life expectancy at birth from 35 years in 1949 to 65.5 years in 1 The opinions and conclusions expressed in this testimony are the author's alone and should not be interpreted as representing those of the RAND Corporation or any of the sponsors of its research. 2 The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.

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“…As Kenneth McLaughlin put it recently, "the public expression of hitherto private secrets and hurt" has, since the 1970s, come to be seen as "freeing and self-transforming." 35 More important, the label "survivor" brings with it certain expectations regarding public recognition: it "serves to endow the speaker with moral authority; as a victim who has survived, their view is meant to be taken seriously." 36 Also, the genre of audio-visual testimony emerged at a time when emotional expression began to pervade public discourse and when television came to be seen, more generally, as the best means of engaging the audience and of communicating affect as well as fact or opinion.…”

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Remembering Jasenovac: Survivor Testimonies and the Cultural Dimension of Bearing Witness

Byford

2014

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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