Emmel, ND orcid.org/0000-0002-2154-5814 (2017) Empowerment in the relational longitudinal space of vulnerability. Social Policy and Society, 16 (3). pp. 457-467. ISSN 1474-7464
Abstract
The term vulnerability has little theoretical purchase in social policy. It is used widely as a short-hand phrase to describe deficit. As such it provides only limited value and has little regard for the wider structures of society that might ameliorate, sustain, or exacerbate vulnerability. There is, however, a critical literature that seeks to understand the social, economic and political relationships that produce vulnerability and its potential opposite, flourishing. This paper draws on this theoretical literature, focussing particularly on relational accounts of autonomy, capabilities and functioning, and the role of societal institutions. Using cases drawn from empirical research investigating how grandparents care for their grandchildren in relationships characterised by rescue and repair, this paper refines a relational model of the longitudinal space of vulnerability. It extends explanation of three dimensions of the model: basic needs, the capacity to be, and access to service providers and elaborates how these dimensions inter-relate, through an investigation of empowerment.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Cambridge University Press 2017. This article has been published in revised form in Social Policy and Society (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-policy-and-society). This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. |
Keywords: | Flourishing; capability; agency; societal institutions |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2017 16:39 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 22:22 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746417000021 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1474746417000021 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:111580 |