From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a “Postsocialist” Age

“But to borrow the phrasing of Nancy Fraser (1995), this limits the discussion to a ‘politics of recognition,’ without extending into the more significant implications of a ‘politics of redistribution.’”

“Following the in fl uential study on transportation equity and capabilities of Pereira et al. (2016) “ based on di ff erent theoretical traditions (Fraser, 2020b; Kymlicka, 2002; Young, 1990), justice can be understood as a broad moral and political ideal that relates to ” (Pereira et al., 2016, p.…”

“Nancy Fraser ’ s social justice framework (2007, 2008, 2008a, 2013) has a solid foundation to ensure participation beyond the political realm of society.”

“The envisaged result is a transformative restructuring or deconstruction (Fraser, 1995) of Bolivia’s education system, together with the revaluation of ‘original’ or indigenous knowledges (Walsh, 2007) and values through education.”

“…in contemporary societies and are rooted in processes and practices that systematically give some groups advantages at the expense of others (Fraser 1995), there are several factors that might influence the effectiveness of participatory futures thinking in facilitating social change toward…”

“Rather than promoting ‘affirmation remedies’ (Fraser 1995, 82), which superficially address outcomes of structural inequalities and maintain the status quo, peacebuilding requires political, economic, social and cultural transformations, tackling conflict drivers.”

“Critical Theory and the recent ‘ recognitive turn ’ , initiated by the works of Honneth (1996) and Nancy Fraser (1995; Fraser and Honneth 2003), serve as a theoretical framework for this analysis.”

“The politics of recognition, including recognition for plural gender identity, emerged as a feature of the global political landscape in the late twentieth century (Fraser, 1995, 2000; Honneth, 1996; Thompson, 2006).”

“This is contrasted against social movements active before the Second World War, which tended to focus on structural inequalities such as social class, and advocated for a politics of redistribution (Fraser 1995; Castells 2010; Benhabib 1996).”

“(Local journalist) In such, everyday encounters in the public domain differences may be negotiated and interpretations adjusted, leading to the development of more fluid and multidimensional identities (Fraser 1995, Amin 2002, Uitermark et al. 2005).”

“To address energy poverty, fundamentally what is required are “ trans-formative ” (Fraser, 1995) policies that address and recon fi gure the structural and institutional arrangements that generate the problem in the fi rst place.”

“In this sense, they align with the two-dimensional conception of justice proposed by Fraser (1995, 2009) based both in recognition and redistribution (our emphasis).”

“Located within critical theory, the work of recognition scholars (Taylor 1995; Honneth 1995; Fraser 1995) is largely interested in self-actualisation, social equality and social justice.”

“She characterised two types of remedies to social injustice: ‘affirmative remedies’, which correct outcomes without changing structural frameworks or the status quo, and ‘transformative remedies’, which correct outcomes by restructuring the underlying generative framework (Fraser 1995).”

“If we integrate redistribution with recognition in Fraser’s (2001) understanding, redressing misrecognition would mean changing social institutions.”

“We see this reflected by three imaginaries in the field: affirmation, evolution, or transformation (cf. Fraser, 1995: 82).”

“6 But see also the discussion of recognition and redistribution in Fraser (1995).”

“This study draws on the recognition theory as conceptualized by Axel Honneth (1995a, 1995b, 2012), Nancy Fraser (1995, 2000) and Charles Taylor (1994).”

“Using Fraser’s concepts, these forms of economic injustice required redistributive measures of some sort. In this regard, it is necessary – if sobering – to recognise that the fundamental nature of apartheid capitalism has not been transformed during the first 20 years of democratic government to date. As Seekings and…”

“These affirmative remedies are ‘aimed at correcting inequitable outcomes of social arrangements without disturbing the underlying framework that generates them’ (Fraser, 1995, p. 82).”

“Injustices are rooted in processes and practices that systematically disadvantage some groups (or individuals) in relation to others (Fraser, 2020).”

“Indeed, it is the continuum’s utility in highlighting the ‘range of harms suffered by women’ (Fraser, 1995, p. 79) that equally illuminates the complex nature of market violence and its need to be understood beyond bounded categorisations.”

“Most interestingly, this perspective, based on recognition theory (Fraser 1995), acknowledges that fuel poverty can have both material and psychological consequences which are not equal across”

“The genealogy of the concept is well framed in materialist understandings of inequalities, often focused on issues of both recognition and redistribution (Fraser 1995), but during recent years, the term has traveled toward a more poststructuralist and even postmodern inspired understanding (Mohanty 2003).”

“These effects can be described as what Nancy Fraser (1995) calls ‘cultural injustices’, which manifest as ‘cultural domination’, ‘nonrecognition’ and ‘disrespect’.”

“She asserts that ‘justice today requires both redistribution and recognition’ (Fraser, 1995, p. 69).”

“Therefore, along with participatory parity (Fraser, 2003, 2008), the politics of need interpretation (Fraser, 1987) provides a second analytical tool to accommodate care as a contested need in the public realm.”

“Facilitating the inclusion of counter-experts in decision-making and knowledge production is, in part, a challenge of recognition justice (Fraser, 1995, 2009).”

“Besides, some research seems to indicate that the policy did not touch the lives of the most disadvantaged and it left intact society’s structural constraints (Fraser 1997) or the divides inside minority groups (D’Souza 1995; de Zwart 2000; Bok 2004; Fry 2012).”

“From a more theoretical perspective, the unease that the centre–left has demonstrated with respect to this issue can be related to what Nancy Fraser framed as the redistribution–recognition dilemma.(30) She describes this dilemma in terms of different axes of injustice that result from traditional class struggles on t…”

“…and Thomas 2018; Ridley et al. 2016; Thomas 2012; Warming 2015), which asserts that individuals in society desire and pursue recognition of their selves as distinct and valued members of a group (for more detailed discussions of the theory, see Fraser 1995; Honneth 1995; Houston 2016; Thomas 2012).”

“While this conflict over questions of ‘identity’ is not new (Fraser, 1995; Butler, 1997; Bramen, 2002), it has gone through a resurgence in Corresponding author: Marie Moran, University College Dublin, Room 205, Hannah Sheehy Skeffington Building, UCD, Belfield Campus, Dublin 4, Ireland.”

“If practitioners perceive that enhancing women ’ s representation in politics (through quotas) is not always combined with an economic politics of equality (Fraser 1995), then it may send a weaker signal of egalitarian democracy.”

“…objective here, I emphasise that an emancipatory future could start if we persistently promote the ideas of universal human dignity and global material justice: the former pertains to the logic of identity recognition, while the latter pertains to the logic of distributive politics (Fraser, 1995).”

“…Sen (1999, 2009) (both scholars at prestigious English institutions) are most often cited with regard to the economic dimensions of justice, it is the American scholar Nancy Fraser who is best known for articulating the cultural and gender recognition dimensions of social justice (Fraser 1995).”

“Recognitive justice is “recognition and respect for cultural and gender differences” (Lambert 2018, 227; Fraser 1995) with the goal of recognition being “a difference-friendly world, where assimilation to majority or dominant cultural norms is no longer the price of equal respect” (Fraser 1998; p.…”

“This three dimensional approach, although scant as a standalone conceptual framework, draws on broad theoretical foundations from justice literature (Fraser, 1995; Young, 2011).”

“Here, Fraser (1998) reminds us that ‘‘struggles for recognition occur in a world of exacerbated material inequality,’’ (pp. 68–69) where cultural disrespect and economic disadvantage are mutually reinforcing.”

“We also relate these practices with what Fraser (1995) calls transformative measures, in contrast with affirmative ones.”

“Nancy Fraser (2000) explains that claims for recognition have become the ‘‘paradigmatic form of political conflict’’ since the late 20th century (Fraser 2008, p. 188).”

“Honneth’s work builds on many previous theorists (e.g. Fraser, 1995; Hegel, 1977; Hegel, 1979; Mead, 1967; Winnicott, 1971) to argue the fundamental importance of relationship, interdependence and intersubjectivity to human development, and of non-instrumental social relations involving recognition…”