About the Book: Understanding Vulnerabilities In Contemporary Society :
Psychological Insights and Reflections
Understanding Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Society: Psychological Insights
and Reflections explores the constructs of 'vulnerability, with an aim to move
beyond the linguistic and normative appropriation of the word. It does this by
uncovering diverse life experiences of varied individuals and communities who
have largely remained unseen and unheard. With dynamically transitioning
sociocultural circumstances, the boundaries demarcating the included versus the
excluded, the accepted versus the unacceptable other, the endeared versus the
disparaged continue to multiply. As we struggle with these numerous identities
and categories, we are forced to encounter compounded vulnerabilities. The book
explores the various