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From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a “Postsocialist” Age
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Cultural domination supplants exploitation as the fundamental injustice. And cultural recognition displaces Socioeconomic redistribution as the remedy for injustice and the goal of political struggle. The point holds for recognition remedies more generally. Whereas affirmative recognition remedies tend to promote existing group differentiations, transformative recognition remedies tend, in the long run, to destabilize them so as to make room for future regroupments. Like affirmative redistribution, transformative redistribution generally presupposes a universalist conception of recognition, the equal moral worth of persons. Affirmative redistribution can stigmatize the disadvantaged, adding the insult of misrecognition to the injury of deprivation. Transformative redistribution, in contrast, can promote solidarity, helping to redress some forms of misrecognition. The 'struggle for recognition' is fast becoming the paradigmatic form of political conflict in the late twentieth century. Demands for 'recognition of difference' fuel struggles of groups mobilized under the banners of nationality, ethnicity, 'race,' gender, and sexuality.
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- Fraser, N.
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- Nancy Fraser
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- Justice Interruptus
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- redistribution, recognition, justice, post-socialism, dependency, welfare state, genealogy, social policy
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