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The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice: Transforming Subjectivities and New Forms of Resistance

The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice: Transforming Subjectivities and New Forms of Resistance

Pallotta-Chiarolli, Maria
Pease, Bob

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, Book 15

General Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0415819458
ISBN13: 9780415819459
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 4 2013
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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