Theories of vulnerability are most often seen in the anthropology of disaster studies, where socio-economic and political inequalities produce environmental vulnerabilities, and the people situated in these locations are positioned as vulnerable and dependent 'Others'. Rather than reproduce vulnerability as a concept denoting weakness, this paper seeks to examine the generative capacities of vulnerability practised in parallel in ethnographic and community spaces. As a form of witnessing and participating in and out of differing social worlds, anthropology engages in different vulnerabilities with and between multiple actors. This paper examines how a community program working with families identified as 'disadvantaged' in South Australia strategically uses vulnerability as a productive resource and a practice of care. In theorising vulnerability through parallel practices in both ethnographic approaches and this community program, we argue that vulnerability can be leveraged away from negative welfare discourses towards alternative politics of radical care and social change.

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生产性暴露：作为人种学和社区空间中平行护理实践的脆弱性

脆弱性理论最常出现在灾害研究的人类学中，社会经济和政治不平等导致环境脆弱性，而位于这些地方的人们被定位为脆弱和依赖的“其他人”。本文不是将脆弱性再现为一个表示弱点的概念，而是试图检验在人种学和社区空间中并行实践的脆弱性的生成能力。作为见证和参与不同社会世界的一种形式，人类学与多个参与者以及在多个参与者之间存在不同的脆弱性。本文研究了与南澳大利亚被认定为“弱势”家庭合作的社区计划如何战略性地利用脆弱性作为生产资源和护理实践。