Open AccessBetween Autonomy and Vulnerability : the Space of Movement
Author(s) -
Kevin McDonald
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2033-7485
pISSN - 1782-1592
DOI - 10.4000/rsa.512
Subject(s) - autonomy , agency (philosophy) , embodied cognition , sovereignty , subjectivity , vulnerability (computing) , space (punctuation) , movement (music) , sociology , action (physics) , epistemology , environmental ethics , political science , social science , aesthetics , politics , law , philosophy , computer security , computer science , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
Analyses of the contemporary alterglobalization movement increasingly emphasize dimensions of autonomy, whose ultimate origins lie in theories of agency understood as sovereignty. This paper argues that critical dimensions of the alterglobalization movement involve practices of embodied action and forms of responsibility that point beyond autonomy, to a paradigm of relational vulnerability. Recognising this is central to understanding ethics, agency, and subjectivity and to understanding movements as a space of experience.\u