Includes index.

Individual and social adaptations to vulnerability -- "We're living from loan-to-loan": pastoral vulnerability and the cashmere-debt cycle in Mongolia -- Living within the narrative of microfinance: vulnerability, well-intentioned debt, and the individualization of social problems in Quito, Ecuador -- Being an entrepreneur and feeling vulnerable: encountering fragility in the construction business in the North of Italy -- Coping with coffee rust in Oaxaca, Mexico: vulnerability and the impact of fair trade on smallholders' adaptive capacity -- Fishers, vulnerability, and the political economy of dispossession and reconstruction in post-tsunami Tamil Nadu -- Managing meagre means and reciprocal reputations: women's everyday survival tactics in a Malawian village -- Intimate economy of vulnerability: transactional relationships between western expatriates and Southeast Asian domestic workers in Hong Kong's Wanchai -- Economic sovereignty in volatile times: eastern band of Cherokee Indians' strategies supporting economic stability -- American world visions of vulnerability: the sacred, the secular, and roots of evangelical American aid -- Socioeconomic development and changing reasons for using desert kites to kill gazelles.

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