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From Redistribution to
Recognition? Dilemmas ofJustice in a Postsocialist Age
Nancy Fraser, 1997
Tesa C. de Vela
Miriam CollegeSeptember 2011
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Premises
Increasing political mobilization based on group identityrather class interests, yet increasing material inequality in theworld
What should we make of the rise of a new political imaginarycentered on notions of identity, difference, cultural dominationand recognition? Does this shift represent a lapse into falseconsciousness? Or does it redress the culture blindness of amaterialist paradigm?
Critical theory of recognition that defends cultural politics ofdifference that can be combined with social politics ofequality
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Premises
Cultural Politics of Difference combined withSocial Politics of Equality
Cultural recognition supports not underminessocial equality
Justice = Recognition + Redristribution
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Critical Theory of Recognition
Redistribution Recognition Dilemma Identity-based claims predominate prospects for
redistribution with little programmatic coherence
Propose two analytical understandings of injustice Social-economic injustice rooted in political-economic
structures of society exploitation, marginalization,deprivation
Cultural & symbolic injustice based on social patterns ofrepresentation, interpretation, & communication culturaldomination, non-recognition / invisibilized, disrespect
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Critical Theory of Recognition
Both are pervasive, rooted in systematicprocesses, should be remedied
Both injustices are often intertwined
Cultural norms create economic and political bias
Economic disadvantages impede equalparticipation in everyday life
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Critical Theory of Recognition
Interference between recognition andredistribution remedies
Recognition claims call for specificity & its valuing
- GROUP DIFFERENTIATION
- Focused on cultural-valuation structures
Redistribution claims call for sameness
- DEMOLISH GROUP DIFFERENTIATION
- Focused on political economic structures
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Proposed Remedy
RECOGNITION aimed at remedying CULTURALINJUSTICE
REDISTRIBUTION aimed at remedying ECONOMICINJUSTICE
Bivalent collectivities as a key concept
e.g. race & gender
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The question of Remedy Affirmation or/andTransformation
Affirmative remedies Correcting inequitable outcomes of social arrangements
without disturbing the underlying framework that generatethem
Transformative remedies Correcting inequitable outcomes precisely by restructuring
the underlying generative framework
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Critical Theory of Recognition
Examples cited Lesbian & Gay Identity Politics vs Queer Politics Liberal Politics vs. Socialist Politics
See Matrix
Affirmative Strategies promote group Differencessaid to lead to Stigmatization
Transformative Strategies blur Differences said tolead to Solidarity
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Affirmation Transformation
Redistribution Liberal welfare state
- Surface reallocationsgoods;
- Supports group
differentiation
- Can lead tomisrecognition
Socialism
- Deep restructuring ofrelations of production;
- Blurs group
differentiation
- Can lead to remedymisrecognition
Recognition Mainstreammulticulturalism
- Surface reallocations ofrespect
- Supports groupdifferentiation
Deconstruction
- Deep restructuring ofrelations of recognition;
- Destablizes groupdifferentiation
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Using Frasers Critical Theory ofRecognition for group presentation on:
Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women(CEDAW)
Beijing Platform for Action (BFA)
International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme ofAction
International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
International Convenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
UN Resolution of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (SCR 1325)
Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Final requirements:
Group report = 50% of finals
Components of group report:
Brief background / salient features of topic assigned
Application of Redistribution Recognition Matrix
Discussion / implications Pose 3 key questions
Presentations 10-15 minutes per group on Sept. 28
Individual submissions of one page paper = 50% of finals
Attendance at RH Bill forum on September 15, 9am-12nn,U.P. College of Law
Submission of papers Sept. 28
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