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    • Vulnerability and Children’s Rights
    Authors: Herring, Jonathan;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2022)

    This paper will explore the relevance of vulnerability to children’s rights. Broadly speaking legal debates over children can be broken down into two camps. First, those who emphasise the vulnerability of children. For them rights designed to protect children from abuse and promote their welfare are the most significant. Second, those who claim that children are far less vulnerable than is assumed and should be given many of the freedoms of adults. For them rights of autonomy and freedom should be emphasised. This paper will argue that both camps make the error of starting with the norm of adulthood being a time of invulnerability and independence from which children are either distinguished or are closer to than is normally appreciated. Once it is recognised that adults share in ch...
    • Vulnerability, Disability, and Agency Exploring Structures for Inclusive Decision-Making and Participation in a Responsive State
    Authors: Mustaniemi-Laakso, Maija; Katsui, Hisayo; Heikkilä, Mikaela;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2022)

    By unpacking some of the dichotomies inherent in the concepts of vulnerability and disability, the article problematises some of the current legal approaches to disability in Finland. It argues that where used to single out population groups or individuals due to their embodied characteristics, the vulnerability paradigm can be seen to create binaries both among the persons with disabilities, and between the “vulnerable” persons with disabilities and the perception of a rational, self-standing and autonomous human being. To mitigate such binaries, the article explores an agency-centred discourse of vulnerability, one that recognises the co-existence of agency and vulnerability and sees agency as dynamic and responsive to the societal support structures that surround all of us.
    • Vulnerability and Entitlements
    Authors: Turner, Bryan S.;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2022)

    The article examines the merits of both human rights and citizenship as systems to protect vulnerable individuals. The idea of vulnerability is presented as a more reliable concept than the dignity of the individual in comparative research. The body is basic to vulnerability.