Vulnerability, Advanced Global Capitalization and Co-Symptomatic Injustice: Locating the Vulnerable Subject

Abstract

This chapter offers a reflection upon the location of the vulnerable subject of Fineman's vulnerability thesis. It offers a critical engagement with the 'double-exisions' of body and context which found the liberal legal order, focusing upon the implications of embodiment and context, locating the vulnerable subject within the conditions of advanced neoliberal globalisation, and reflecting upon the implications of unevenness and Radhakrishnan's notion of co-symptomaticity for the vulnerability thesis.