Questioni di potere : costruzione sociale della logica simbolica della percezione sensoriale e discriminazione

The paper discusses Gianfranceso Zanetti’s proposal to examine the relations between perception and vulnerability stressing the importance of taking on a social constructionist perspective focused on power. It proposes to shift attention from vulnerability – which is presumed to focus attention on the intrinsic characteristics of the ‘victims’ – to discrimination in order to highlight how human perception is oriented by the effort/necessity to draw boundaries that can define who is included and who is not