Vulnerability Studies: An Introduction

Lesson 1: Defining Vulnerability (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 2: Vulnerability and Precarity (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 3: Resilience (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad)

Lessons 4-5: Vulnerability, Precarity, Humanitarianism (Deepanshu Mohan, OP Jindal Global University)

Lesson 1: Social identities and vulnerability (PKN – PPT, recording done) (MCQs done)

Lesson 2: Willed Vulnerability: Endurance sports (Rahul De, Azim Premji University)

Lesson 3: Illness, Storytelling and Embodiment (Meenakshi Srihari, Sai University)

Lesson 4: Reading Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals (Meenakshi Srihari, Sai University)

Lesson 5: Group discussion - Prateeti Chowdhury, Megha Manjari Mohanty, Nayana NR, Atul Nair, Pramod K Nayar (all University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 1: The Aesthetics of Vulnerability – I (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 2: The Aesthetics of Vulnerability – II. Traumatic Materialism (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 3: The Aesthetics of Vulnerability - III Melodrama (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 4: Vulnerability Aesthetics: The Sublime (Saradindu Bhattacharya, University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 5: Group discussion - Shahim Sheikh, Shreyasi Banerjee, Sourav Jatua, Pramod K Nayar (all University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 1: Biopolitics, Biopower and Vulnerability  - I (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad) 

Lesson 2: Biopolitics, Biopower and Vulnerability  - II (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad) 

Lesson 3: Pandemics and Biopolitics (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad) 

Lesson 4: Biopolitics and Vulnerable Populations in Contemporary Literature (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad) 

Lesson 5: Group Discussion - Arjun Raj, Sourav Jatua, Pramod K Nayar  (all University of Hyderabad) 

Lesson 1: Ecoprecarity (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad) 

Lesson 2: Ecodystopia – I (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad) 

Lesson 3: Ecodystopia – II (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad) 

Lessons 4-5: Group Discussion - Anna Kurian, Saradindu Bhattacharya, Pramod K Nayar  (all University of Hyderabad)  

Lesson 1:  Aging and Vulnerability I: Texts and Representations  of Aging/Old Age (Anna Kurian, University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 2: Aging and Vulnerability II: Texts and Representations  of Aging/Old Age (Anna Kurian, University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 3: Aging and Vulnerability III: Texts and Representations  of Aging/Old Age (Anna Kurian, University of Hyderabad)

Lessons 4-5: Group Discussion - Arjun Raj, Naorem Washington Singh, Pramod K Nayar (all University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 1: Childhood and Vulnerability – I (Anna Kurian, University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 2: Childhood and Vulnerability – II (Anna Kurian, University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 3: Childhood and Vulnerability – III (Anna Kurian, University of Hyderabad)

Lessons 4-5: Group Discussion - Prateeti Chowdhury, Atul V Nair, Pramod K Nayar (all University of Hyderabad)

Lesson 1: Imperial Vulnerability – I (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad) 

Lesson 2: Imperial Vulnerability – II (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad) 

Lesson 3: Posthuman Vulnerability (Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad) 

Lesson 4: Contemporary Genres of Resilience: The Graphic Novel – I (Maria Porras Sanchez, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

Lesson 5: Contemporary Genres of Resilience: The Graphic Novel – II (Maria Porras Sanchez, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

Brown, Patrick. On Vulnerability: A Critical Introduction. Routledge 2022.
Fineman, Martha Albertson and Anna Grear (eds) Vulnerability Reflections on a New Ethical Foundation for Law and Politics. Routledge 2013.
Masschelein, Anneleen, Florian Mussgnug and Jennifer Rushworth (eds) Mediating Vulnerability: Comparative approaches and questions of genre. UCL Press, 2021.
Sánchez, María Porras and Gerardo Vilches (eds) Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives : Young Lives in Crisis. Routledge, 2023.
Butler, Judith, Zeynep Gambetti, Leticia Sabsay (eds) Vulnerability in Resistance. Duke, 2016.
Nayar, Pramod K. The Extreme in Contemporary Culture: States of Vulnerability. Lexington, 2017.
Nayar, Pramod K. Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2019.

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