Vulnerability as ethical practice: dismantling affective privilege and resilience to transform development hierarchies

Child development: vulnerability and resilience.

Many of the challenges facing children now are a function of changing times, including increase in urbanization, political violence, changing family forms, and in some areas decreased supplies of adequate food. This review focuses particularly on those changes in which children are the victims and which induce new threats for them, rather than on problems such as child disability or mental illn...

Oscillatory Dynamics of Urban Hierarchies 900-2000 Vulnerability and Resilience

We show the fallacies of the Zipfian and power-law views in quantitative analyses of city-size distributions and of the notion that they are superior, simpler, and more universal than q-exponential or Pareto II distributions because of the single-parameter assumption. Both sets of models have two parameters, but the q-exponential captures a scaling coefficient that is fundamental to understandi...

Poverty, Privilege, and Brain Development: Empirical Findings and Ethical Implications

Introduction After my daughter was born people sometimes asked me " Has having a child gotten you interested in brain development? " My answer was " No, not exactly, but having babysitters has. " More specifically, getting to know my daughter's babysitters and becoming close with some of them and their families called my attention to a set of complex social problems that are, I believe, partly ...

Policy dismantling as evidence-based practice

Problems to be addressed: Every year approximately 100,000 youths under the age of 18 are admitted to adult jails across the country. These youths are in extreme danger. Many children are placed in solitary confinement which can cause anxiety, paranoia, and exacerbate existing mental disorders putting youths at increased risk of suicide. Youths housed in adult jails are 36 times more likely to ...

Dismantling general practice.