Introduction.

This collection consists of papers presented at a symposium on William Connolly's 2013 book The Fragility of Things at Johns Hopkins University. The majority of the contributors here were invited to bring challenging ideas together from multiple fields around the theme of fragility. Aubrey Yee's paper was added after her presentation at the 2014 International Studies Association meeting in Toronto. This introduction reflects on fragility, the themes that each of these papers invoke, and the interdisciplinary scope of the symposium. It ends with a summary abstract of each paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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