Human vulnerability and socio-political contexts
| dc.contributor.author | Simova, Olga | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-01T19:02:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-01T19:02:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-09-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article examines human vulnerability in relation to the changing socio-political context of the contemporary world, resulting from the undermining of the established international order in recent decades as a result of Russia's large-scale war against Ukraine, military actions in explosive areas such as the Middle East, and the hybrid warfare that dictatorial regimes and terrorist organizations are waging against the free world. The poles of confrontation are outlined, broadly labelled as the global ghetto versus the global city. The second part presents the two largely contradictory discourses - modern and postmodern - within which human vulnerability in the Western world is thematized. Several themes of the discourse critical of modernity are presented, such as 'structural violence'; the specific identity of minority groups and the demand for specific rights; and postcolonialism and anti-colonialism, which require policies that contradict those derived from the modern discourse and promote ghettoization both within individual societies and in the world. The hypothesis proposed in this article is that war, especially open war, clarifies dividing lines and challenges a rethinking of emphases in defining human vulnerability. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2534-8442 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.uni-plovdiv.bg/handle/store/232 | |
| dc.language.iso | other | |
| dc.publisher | Plovdiv University Press | |
| dc.subject | human vulnerability | |
| dc.subject | war | |
| dc.subject | structural violence | |
| dc.subject | identity | |
| dc.subject | recognition | |
| dc.subject | postcolonialism | |
| dc.title | Human vulnerability and socio-political contexts | |
| dc.type | Article |