In the contemporary moment, systemic failures – from climate change to pandemics to political repression – have created embodied vulnerabilities worldwide. I argue here that the increasing precaritization of individual bodies is an index of the political formations that create and condition vulnerabilities among certain populations. Recognizing this, analyses of the conditions of embodied vulnerability are crucial to cultural studies in that they contribute to understanding and challenging neocolonial and patriarchal power and injustice. Feminist materialism and theories of post- and neo-colonialism reveal the processes of embodiment as complex modes of epistemic violence. To reorient cultural studies theoretically and methodologically, I propose the feminist ethics of care as a working framework for mapping, challenging, and changing the processes of materialization at work in unjust and asymmetric embodied vulnerabilities.

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身体非殖民化和护理伦理：论具身脆弱性作为文化研究未来的意义

在当今时代，从气候变化到流行病再到政治镇压的系统性失败在全世界范围内造成了具体的脆弱性。我在这里认为，个人机构日益不稳定是政治形态的一个指标，它在某些人群中造成和调节了脆弱性。认识到这一点，对具体脆弱性条件的分析对于文化研究至关重要，因为它们有助于理解和挑战新殖民主义和父权制的权力和不公正。女权主义唯物主义以及后殖民主义和新殖民主义理论揭示了体现过程是认知暴力的复杂模式。为了在理论和方法论上重新定位文化研究，我提出将女权主义关怀伦理作为一个工作框架，用于绘制、挑战和改变不公正和不对称的脆弱性的物化过程。