The social production of vulnerability: Sub-regional and class inequalities in Attica
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Our study aims at a global understanding of social vulnerability focusing on its structural determinants, in social and spatial domains of heightened uncertainty. Vulnerability is approached as a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon contingent both on people’s disadvantaged life world and on their agential powers, but also manifested at different scales: the national, the local, and the occupational. Analyzing macro-social data (drawing mostly from 2011 census) and survey data, we examine whether and to which degree vulnerability is patterned along the lines either of class or along other factors, such as geographical location. The geographical focus of the study is placed on the regional units of Piraeus and West Attica, Greece. Our findings suggest that class constitutes a powerful mechanism in the distribution of social risks whose operation interacts with other mechanisms of social differentiation
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Bithymitris, G., Christodoulou, M., Koustenis, P., Iliopoulou, T., & Spyridakis, M. (2022). The social production of vulnerability: Sub-regional and class inequalities in Attica. Social Cohesion and Development, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.12681/scad.32095
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