9th Edition, 2023
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Vulnerability has become a highly debated and widely worked with paradigm for describing a variety of social fragmentations. For instance, it has been used in studies across various disciplines and institutions, often addressing a number of different realities. A floating signifier (Fassin, Rechtman 2007), vulnerability is both used to refer to an ontological understanding of…
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Convenors : Simone Di Cecco (Université Paris Cité / URMIS) ; Noemi Martorano (Université Paris Nanterre/IDHE.S; Università degli studi di Padova/FISPPA) Contacts : esse.dicecco@gmail.com ; noemi.martorano@phd.unipd.it Abstract:Humanitarianism depicts some populations and individuals as suffering and vulnerable bodies which have to be governed through emergency measures. As documented by long standing critical studies (Fassin 2015; Malkki…
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AbstractIntimacy is usually understood as pertaining to what is most private and personal. In their fieldwork, ethnographers often professionally intrude into intimate situations. This way, intimacy is not only an object of study, but also raises reflexive, positional and ethical issues in social research (Aull Davies, 1999). Multiple issues must be addressed. As concerns informants…
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ConvenorsStefania Palmisano Stefania Palmisano, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Turin, Italy, where she teaches the sociology of organization and the sociology of religion. Her research includes religious experience in mainstream religions, alternative spiritualities, New Religious Movements and the relationship between spirituality and care in Italian healthcare system. She…