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The vulnerable subject: anchoring equality in the human condition
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In this chapter I develop the concept of vulnerability in order to argue for a more responsive state and a more egalitarian society. I argue that vulnerability is universal and constant, inherent in the human condition. The vulnerability approach I propose is an alternative to traditional equal protection analysis; it moves us beyond identity-based inquiries because it focuses not only on discrimination against defined groups, but is concerned with the privileges conferred on limited segments of the population by the state through its institutions. Therefore, vulnerability analyses concentrate on our social structures and institutions established to manage our common vulnerabilities. This approach has the potential to move us beyond the confines of current discrimination-based models toward a more substantive vision of equality. Theorizing a concept of vulnerability necessitates developing a more complex subject around which to build social policy and law; this new subject is useful in redefining and expanding current ideas about state responsibility toward individuals and institutions. In fact, I argue that the “vulnerable subject” must replace the autonomous and independent subject asserted in the liberal tradition. Far more representative of actual lived experience and the human condition, the vulnerable subject should be at the center of our political and theoretical endeavors. The vision of the state that would emerge in such an engagement would be more responsive to and responsible for the vulnerable subject, a reimagining that is essential to attaining a more equal society than currently exists in America. Before developing the vulnerability thesis, I will address some conceptual impediments to the idea of a more responsive state. First, an impoverished sense of equality is embedded in our current legal doctrine. We understand equality in formal terms, focused on discrimination and inattentive to underlying societal inequities. Second, the view that the state’s proper role is one of restraint and abstention is politically powerful. Even self-identified progressive social reformers are suspicious of the state; the rhetoric of non-intervention prevails in policy discussions, deterring positive measures designed to address inequalities. We idealize contract and correspondingly reify individual choice in ways that mask society’s role in perpetuating inequality. The fact that societal institutions play a significant role in perpetrating inequality is the very reason that we need a more active and responsive state.
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“In 1999, the Supreme Court of Vermont looked into its own early American history and held that same-sex couples were entitled to receive the legal benefits and protections that were previously only afforded to married couples of opposite sexes.55”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > VI. A MORE POSITIVE EQUALITY
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“Privileges and disadvantages accumulate across systems and can combine to create effects that are more devastating or more beneficial than the weight of each separate part.”
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“Politically, this limitedness is problematic because it can and has resulted in significant backlash.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 5. Id.
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“However, contracts have no independent force; they are merely documents dependent on the institutions of the state to give them life through interpretation, implementation and execution.”
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“Therefore, with respect to the assets any one person possesses, it is not multiple identities that intersect to produce compounded inequalities, as has been posited by some theorists, but rather systems of power and privilege that interact to produce webs of advantages and disadvantages.43”
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“These individual successes create both theoretical and empirical pitfalls: Successful individuals who belong to a designated suspect class can undermine the coherence and dilute the strength of critical analyses based on asserted bias against the same identity group.”
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“From a political and policy perspective, the current model of equality is further limited as an anti-discrimination principle because its protections do not appear to extend to everyone.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 5. Id.
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“No matter how we try to isolate transactions, the state is always a residual player in socalled private arrangements, having fashioned both the background rules that shape those agreements and maintaining the background institutions upon which parties ultimately rely.”
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“Together and independently they provide us with what Peadar Kirby refers to as “assets”advantages, coping mechanisms, or resources that cushion us when we are facing misfortune, disaster, and violence.”
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“Focusing on the interactions of asset-conferring institutions makes clear why some individuals can maneuver past disadvantages typically associated with our existing discrimination categories of race or gender to excel, even triumph, in a “white man's world.””
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“It does not provide a framework for challenging existing allocations of resources and power.5”
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“However, society can and does mediate, compensate, and lessen our vulnerability through programs, institutions, and structures.”
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“Understanding vulnerability begins with the realization that many such events are ultimately beyond human control.25”
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“This veneration of state non-intervention is a second major impediment to reforms intent on instituting a state that is more responsive to inequalities.8”
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“While this model might be used to successfully address some situations of discrimination, it fails to protect against others.”
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“Nor does our equal protection doctrine provide much protection against discrimination on the basis of categories not recognized as receiving heightened judicial scrutiny, such as disability and sexual orientation.”
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“Therefore, because both our personal and our social lives are marked and shaped by vulnerability, a vulnerability analysis must have both individual and institutional components.”
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“Through the exercise of legitimate force in bringing societal institutions into legal existence and subsequently regulating them under its mandate of its public authority, the state also constitutes itself.15”
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“The groups that traditional equal protection analyses recognize include some individuals who are relatively privileged notwithstanding their membership in these identity groups.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 5. Id.
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“Nevertheless, the sameness of treatment version of equality has proven resilient in the face of arguments for a more substantive concept of equality, one that is result-oriented and takes into account past circumstances and future obligations, considering need and disadvantage.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 5. Id.
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“Both intimate and economic entities are creatures of the state, in the sense that they are brought into legal existence by the mechanisms of the state.”
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“Currently, dominant political and legal theories are built around a universal human subject defined in the liberal tradition.28”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > A. The Vulnerable Subject
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“The fact that societal institutions play a significant role in maintaining and extending inequality is the very reason that we need a more active state, one that is responsive to that reality.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > INTRODUCTION
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“Understood historically as the manifestation of public authority and the ultimate legitimate repository of coercive power, the state is the only realistic contender in that regard.”
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“This version of equality is similarly weak in its ability to address and correct the disparities in economic and social wellbeing among various groups in our society.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > I. THE LIMITS OF FORMAL EQUALITY
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“Because we are positioned differently within a web of economic and institutional relationships, our vulnerabilities range in magnitude and potential at the individual level.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > III. THE VULNERABILITY THESIS
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“Even more significant in the long run has been the fact that the goal of confronting discrimination against certain groups has largely eclipsed, even become a substitute for, the goal of eliminating material, social, and political inequalities that exist across groups.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 5. Id.
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“These institutions collectively form systems that play an important role in lessening, ameliorating, and compensating for vulnerability.33”
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“Rather, it has withdrawn or been prevented by entrenched interests from fulfilling one of its traditional roles in the social compact: to act as the principal monitor or guarantor of an equal society.”
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“Because vulnerability is ever-present and enduring, institutional as well as individual, it suggests a critique of dominant modes of thinking about inequality that is at once complementary to but more powerful than dependency.”
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“We must begin to think of the state's commitment to equality as one rooted in an understanding of vulnerability and dependency, recognizing that autonomy is not a naturally occurring characteristic of the human condition, but a product of social policy.”
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“As noted earlier, discrimination-based arguments have accomplished too little with respect to dismantling broad systems of disadvantage that transcend racial and gender lines, such as poverty.46”
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“Institutional exclusion in the formal, historic sense is not the reason that these individuals are not flourishing.47”
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“However, by relying on the myth of the autonomous individual, the formal equality model fails to address substantive inequalities and differential allocations of privilege produced by our institutions.50”
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“The court's rationale in extending these benefits (or assets) to same-sex couples derived, not from arguments of formal equality under the Equal Protection Clause, but from a more expansive and earlier notion of equality derived from the experience of colonial America.56”
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“As stated earlier in this Essay, our present conceptions of the state underestimate or even ignore the many ways in which the state-through lawshapes institutions from their inception to their dissolution.49”
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“Current antidiscrimination law and formal equality provide little in terms of rectifying many of the disadvantages these people face.”
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“Vulnerability is typically associated with victimhood, deprivation, dependency, or pathology.20”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > III. THE VULNERABILITY THESIS
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“This approach has the potential to move us beyond the stifling confines of current discrimination-based models toward a more substantive vision of equality.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > INTRODUCTION
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“In addition to the examples Kirby provides, employment systems should be added; like education and healthcare, they develop the human being, impart assets that allow participation in the market and, thus, facilitate the accumulation of material resources that help bolster individuals' resilience in the face of vulnerability.”
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“These assets determine our present quality of life, and provide the material basis for accumulation of additional resources-or resources that are more sustainable-in the form of savings and investments.36”
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“Kirby argues persuasively that social assets are also accumulated through political collectives in which individuals bolster their resilience by joining together to address vulnerabilities generated by the market.41”
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“Vulnerability initially should be understood as arising from our embodiment, which carries with it the ever-present possibility of harm, injury, and misfortune from mildly adverse to catastrophically devastating events, whether accidental, intentional, or otherwise.”
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In the paper
“Contemplating our shared vulnerability it becomes apparent that human beings need each other, and that we must structure our institutions in response to this fundamental human reality.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > B. The Vulnerable Society and Its Institutions
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“In American legal culture, the idea of the private acts as a principle of restraint and abstention.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > II. THE RESTRAINED STATE
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“The fact that nonintervention has facilitated a skewed and unequal society with the distance between rich and poor growing in recent years, makes clear that some form of prevailing power is essential to counter unfettered self-interest.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > II. THE RESTRAINED STATE
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In the paper
“Even self-identified progressive social reformers are suspicious of the state; the rhetoric of non-intervention prevails in policy discussions, deterring positive measures designed to address inequalities.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > INTRODUCTION
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“Vulnerability is universal and, as such, transcends historic categories of impermissible discrimination.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 42 IV. ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE
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- Rests on an assumption: The sub-prime mortgage crisis affected white and middle-class people as well as those in the traditional suspect categories.
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“A first step in this reconception is understanding that the state itself is manifested through complex institutional arrangements.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > II. THE RESTRAINED STATE
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In the paper
“Undeniably universal, human vulnerability is also particular: it is experienced uniquely by each of us and this experience is greatly influenced by the quality and quantity of resources we possess or can command.27”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > III. THE VULNERABILITY THESIS
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“Of course, societal institutions themselves are not foolproof shelters, even in the short term.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > B. The Vulnerable Society and Its Institutions
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“Unless some distortion is perceived to be introduced by impermissible bias, the state is not accountable.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > I. THE LIMITS OF FORMAL EQUALITY
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“Within the various systems for conferring assets, individuals are often positioned differently from one another, so that some are more privileged, while others are relatively disadvantaged.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 42 IV. ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE
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“One promising theoretical potential of making vulnerability central in an analysis of equality is that attention to the situation of the vulnerable individual leads us to redirect focus onto the societal institutions that are created in response to individual vulnerability.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > B. The Vulnerable Society and Its Institutions
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“I argue that vulnerability is-and should be understood to be-universal and constant, inherent in the human condition.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > INTRODUCTION
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“Far more representative of actual lived experience and the human condition, the vulnerable subject should be at the center of our political and theoretical endeavors.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > INTRODUCTION
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“Individuals can attempt to lessen the risk or mitigate the impact of such events, but they cannot eliminate their possibility.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > III. THE VULNERABILITY THESIS
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“Sometimes privileges conferred within certain systems can mediate or even cancel out disadvantages conferred in others.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 42 IV. ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE
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“These collectives historically included trade unions and political parties, but todayas Kirby recognizes-the welfare state and insurance are also offered as alternative, often competing, means of protection against risk.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 38.
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“Vulnerability is a more encompassing concept and, for that reason, analyses centered around vulnerability are more politically potent than those based on dependency.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 29
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“The vulnerable subject approach does what the one-dimensional liberal subject approach cannot: it embodies the fact that human reality encompasses a wide range of differing and interdependent abilities over the span of a lifetime.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 2008]
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“These individuals do not disprove the existence of structural inequalities or the need for remedial action, however.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 42 IV. ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE
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In the paper
“Current conceptions of privacy are based on this dichotomy, which places some things and institutions presumptively beyond state regulation and control.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > II. THE RESTRAINED STATE
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“State restraint is often expressed in terms of the separate spheres ideology: there is a contrast between public and private domains, with the state cast as the quintessential public entity and the family cast as essentially private.9”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > II. THE RESTRAINED STATE
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“Finally, social assets are networks of relationships from which we gain support and strength, including the family and other cultural groupings and associations.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 38.
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In the paper
“What is more, sameness of treatment has been used to argue increasingly effectively against measures like affirmative action that might generate remedies for past inequities.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 5. Id.
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In the paper
“Important to the consideration of privilege is the fact that these systems interact in ways that further affect these inequalities.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 42 IV. ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE
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In the paper
“The formal equality model therefore not only fails to take into account existing inequality of circumstances, it also fails to disrupt persistent forms of inequality.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > I. THE LIMITS OF FORMAL EQUALITY
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“Vulnerability analysis questions the idea of a liberal subject, suggesting that the vulnerable subject is a more accurate and complete universal figure to place at the heart of social policy.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 29
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“Because neither inequalities nor the systems that produce them are inevitable, they can also be objects of reform.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 5. Id.
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In the paper
“The nature of this relationship, coupled with the fact that asset conferring institutions initially are brought into legal existence only through state mechanisms, places such institutions within the domain of state responsibility.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 38.
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“Further, we idealize contract and correspondingly reify individual choice in ways that mask society's role in perpetuating inequality.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > INTRODUCTION
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“Second, the view that the proper role of the state is one of restraint and abstention is politically powerful.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > INTRODUCTION
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In the paper
“The vulnerability approach recognizes that individuals are anchored at each end of their lives by dependency and the absence of capacity.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 2008]
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“In this regard, identity categories are both overand under-inclusive.7”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 5. Id.
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites FINEMAN, THE ILLUSION OF EQUALITY, supra note 2
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“Formal equality leaves undisturbed-and may even serve to validate--existing institutional arrangements that privilege some and disadvantage others.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > I. THE LIMITS OF FORMAL EQUALITY
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“Kirby identifies health and education as chief among assets in this category, making the institutions governing education and health 40 care prime candidates for a vulnerability analysis.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 2008]
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- Not matchedcites [40]
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In the paper
“The fact that nonintervention has facilitated a skewed and unequal society with the distance between rich and poor growing in recent years, makes clear that some form of prevailing power is essential to counter unfettered self-interest.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > II. THE RESTRAINED STATE
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In the paper
“The state, in exercising its unique role as the creator of legitimate social organizations susceptible to its ongoing coercive authority, should assume a corresponding responsibility to see that these organizations operate in an equitable manner.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > II. THE RESTRAINED STATE
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In the paper
“The institutions of particular interest are those that are created and maintained under the legitimating authority of the state, since the ultimate objective of a vulnerability analysis is to argue that the state must be more responsive to, and responsible for, vulnerability.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > B. The Vulnerable Society and Its Institutions
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In the paper
“The state facilitated institutions that have grown up around vulnerability are interlocking and overlapping, creating the possibility of layered opportunities and support for individuals, but also containing gaps and potential pitfalls.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 32
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“Cumulatively these assets provide individuals with “resilience” in the face of vulnerability.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 32
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“As such, vulnerability analysis concentrates on the structures our society has and will establish to manage our common vulnerabilities.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > INTRODUCTION
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“Certainly tax and inheritance laws impact the distribution of physical assets and are part of this system, but so also are banking rules and regulations, and credit policies.37”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 2008]
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“Intent is irrelevant, what matters is whether or not these institutions are structured so as to respond unequally to the reality of our shared vulnerability.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 2008]
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“The realization that disadvantage is produced independent of racial and gender biases in many-but of course not all-instances provides an important political tool.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 42 IV. ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE
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“A vulnerability analysis greatly magnifies state responsibility for the institutions and structures the state constructs and utilizes.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 2008]
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“This focus on the structuring of societal institutions reflects the fact that the state has an affirmative obligation not to privilege any group of citizens over others and to actively structure conditions for equality.”
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“The Vermont Constitution's Common Benefits Clause predated the Fourteenth Amendment and was not based on a concept of discrimination, 5 7 nor was it focused only on protection for a specific category of persons.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > VI. A MORE POSITIVE EQUALITY
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“Baker employs a creative and positive mode of inquiry in line with the vulnerability approach: It is concerned with whether the state, in fashioning its institutions, acts with equal regard for the shared vulnerability of all its legal subjects.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > VI. A MORE POSITIVE EQUALITY
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“Our current system has been built upon myths of autonomy and independence and thus fails to reflect the vulnerable as well as dependent nature of the human condition.”
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“They can be compromised by legacies of practices, patterns of behavior, and entrenched interests that were formed during periods of exclusion and discrimination, but are now invisible in a haze of lost history.”
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“Vulnerability analysis demands that the state give equal regard to the shared vulnerability of all individuals, transcending the old identity categories as a limitation on the recognition that the state has a vital role to play in protecting against discrimination.”
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“Mobilizing around the concept of shared, inevitable vulnerability may allow us to more easily build coalitions among those who have not benefited as fully as others from current societal organization.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 42 IV. ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE
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“Certainly state mechanisms that ensure a more equitable distribution of assets and privilege across society would contribute to a more robust democracy and greater public participation.”
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“A vulnerability inquiry proposes a more thorough and penetrating equality analysis--one that considers structural and institutional arrangements in assessing the state's response to situations of vulnerability before indicting the individual.”
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“Welfare reform during the 1990s should have been understood as a direct attack on all caretakers in that it undermined the value of unpaid care work and demonized motherhood outside of the patriarchal paradigm.45”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 42 IV. ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE
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“Remember that institutions as well as individuals are vulnerable to both internal and external forces.”
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“Rather the state is required to ensure that institutions and structures within its control do not inappropriately benefit or disadvantage certain members of society.”
§ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition > 2008]
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The state is an appropriate actor to ensure equality.
“The state, in exercising its unique role as the creator of legitimate social organizations susceptible to its ongoing coercive authority, should assume a corresponding responsibility to see that these organizations operate in an equitable manner.”
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The sub-prime mortgage crisis affected white and middle-class people as well as those in the traditional suspect categories.
“The sub-prime mortgage crisis affected white and middle-class people as well as those in the traditional suspect categories.”
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Institutions are simultaneously constituted by and producers of vulnerability.
“Because institutions are simultaneously constituted by and producers of vulnerability, we must continually challenge these institutional practices and the meting of social resources.”
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Why bioethics needs a concept of vulnerability
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“There is a burgeoning literature which seeks to posit a more ‘radical’ view of vulnerability, mainly located in critical legal studies (see Fineman, 2008; Wallbank and Herring, 2014; Mackenzie et al ., 2014) and ethics literature (see Goodin, 1985).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- FINEMAN, M. A.
- Corresponding author
- MARTHA ALBERTSON FINEMAN
- Venue
- Transcending the Boundaries of Law
- Publisher
- Routledge-Cavendish
- Published
- 2010-07-12
- Pages
- 177-191
- OpenAlex
- W3121891619
- Cited by
- 429
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 216.52
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Law › Discrimination and Equality Law
- Social Sciences › Law › Legal Rights and Human Rights
- Keywords
- vulnerability, vulnerable subjects, equality, equal protection, substantive equality, state responsibility, liberalism, individualism, institutional inequality, social policy, non-interventionism, contract theory
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