![]() Frames of war: When is life grievable? London: Verso.īutler, Judith, et al., eds. Precarious lives: The powers of mourning and violence. ![]() Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts. London: Palgrave Macmillan.īauman, Zygmunt. Abjection and representation: An exploration of abjection in the visual arts, film and literature. In Leila all these forms of assets are responsible not for the amelioration of vulnerability, but its very opposite: the amplification of vulnerability into defencelessness. The chapter discusses three ‘assets’ as central to the vulnerable subject’s survival: human assets (such as education and health), physical assets (the infrastructure) and social assets (networks, social welfare measures). That is, eroding social apparatuses are the primary cause of eroding ‘social ontologies’, thus rendering precariousness to citizens. It shows how vulnerable subjects are embodied and embedded-in specific ecosystems that rather than protect the subjects, seem to transform their vulnerability into dependency and helplessness. ![]() Closely aligned with Judith Butler’s now-classic formulation in Precarious Lives and Frames of War, the chapter looks at vulnerability as less a weakness than a condition in which the state has a major role to play. This chapter looks at the way Prayaag Akbar’s Leila (2017) thematizes precarity-not just individual but entire communities of vulnerable subjects. ![]()
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