Waite, L., Valentine, G. and Lewis, H. (2014) Multiply vulnerable populations: Mobilising a politics of compassion from the 'capacity to hurt'. Social and Cultural Geography, 15 (3). 313 - 331. ISSN 1464-9365
Abstract
This paper reflects on the concept of insecurity defined as 'the capacity to hurt'. It begins by considering asylum seekers and refugees as hyper-precarious groups that have experienced bodily, material and psychological 'hurt' in the UK. At the same time, the paper considers how these hyper-precarious groups are perceived to have the capacity to hurt (bodily, materially, psychologically and spatially) the majority population. Having drawn out two understandings of the capacity to hurt-both the ability to be or feel hurt and the act of hurting others, we argue that a shared recognition of what it means to feel hurt (co-suffering or suffering together)-albeit to very different extremes and with very different consequences-and an understanding of the processes which drive this might be mobilised politically to challenge the act of hurting others. In doing so, we argue for a group politics of compassion to respond to increasingly insecure times. © 2014 © 2014 Taylor & Francis.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Social & Cultural Geography. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | asylum seekers; compassion; hurt; insecurity; prejudice |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2014 13:27 |
Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2015 19:46 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.872286 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14649365.2013.872286 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81383 |