The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice
Via a wide range of case studies, this book examines new forms of resistance to social injustices in contemporary Western societies. Resistance requires agency, and agency is grounded in notions of the subject and subjectivity. How do people make sense of their subjectivity as they are constructed and reconstructed within relations of power? What kinds of subjectivities are needed to struggle against forms of dominance and claim recognition? The participants in the case studies are challenging forms of dominance and subordination grounded in class, race, culture, nationality, sexuality, religion, age, disability and other forms of social division. It is a premise of this book that new and/or reconstructed forms of subjectivity are required to challenge social relations of subordination and domination. Thus, the transformation of subjectivity as well as the restructuring of oppressive power relations is necessary to achieve social justice. By examining the construction of subjectivity of particular groups through an intersectional lens, the book aims to contribute to theoretical accounts of how subjects are constituted and how they can develop a critical distance from their positioning.
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
Bob Pease is Chair of Social Work in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
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1 Feminist Studies
A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing
Nina Lykke
2 Women, Civil Society and the Geopolitics of Democratization
Denise M. Horn
3 Sexuality, Gender and Power
Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives
Edited by Anna G. Jnasdttir, Valerie Bryson and Kathleen B. Jones
4 The Limits of Gendered Citizenship
Contexts and Complexities
Edited by Elbieta H. Oleksy, Jeff Hearn and Dorota Golaska
5 Theories and Methodologies in Postgraduate Feminist Research
Researching Differently
Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Gabriele Griffin and Nina Lykke
6 Making Gender, Making War
Violence, Military and Peacekeeping Practices
Edited by Annica Kronsell and Erika Svedberg
7 Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies
Edited by Mona Livholts
8 Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures
Passionate Play
Jenny Sundn and Malin Sveningsson
9 Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice
Chris Beasley, Heather Brook and Mary Holmes
10 Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions
The Intimate Economy of Tango
Maria Trnqvist
11 Imagining Masculinities
Spatial and Temporal Representation and Visual Culture
Katarzyna Kosmala
12 Rethinking Transnational Men
Beyond, Between and Within Nations
Edited by Jeff Hearn, Marina Blagojevi and Katherine Harrison
13 Being a Man in a Transnational World
The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration
Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
14 Love
A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Anna G. Jnasdttir and Ann Ferguson
15 The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice
Transforming Subjectivities and New Forms of Resistance
Edited by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Bob Pease
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The politics of recognition and social justice: transforming subjectivities and new forms of resistance / edited by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Bob Pease.
pages cm. (Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality; 15)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Social justice. 2. Group identity. I. Pallotta-Chiarolli, Maria, 1960 II. Pease, Bob.
HM671.P65 2013
303.372dc23
2013023150
ISBN13: 978-0-415-81945-9 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-78851-6 (ebk)