VULNERABILITY AND RESISTANCE: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH
In this study the concept of vulnerability is presented in a reflective way along with its correlation with corporeality and its connection with modes of resistance. Vulnerability, as a fundamental condition of life that challenges the idea of the fully autonomous and independent subject, is examined through social forms of interdependency and the intertwining of ethics and politics. Focusing on intersectionality, the departure point of this study is how discipline is imposed on the reproduction of human standards and how the unequal exposure to vulnerability is regulated. Under this framework, vulnerability is related to precariousness troubling the complex links between the way that power operates, the precarious living conditions and the subjectivation. The political performativity of vulnerable bodies that showcases vulnerability as a structural element of resistance against the normative norms and the imposed disposability is a main parameter of this study. The question is what follows when we think vulnerability and resistance together and what transformational action possibilities are produced when differently vulnerable bodies ally forming a collective subject that resists. In this attempt, the resistance practices of the Black Lives Matter movement are taken up as source for a constructive textual dialogue with the theoretical approach.