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Recognition and Difference
Politics, Identity, Multiculture

Edited by:

Scott Lash - University of Oxford, UK, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Mike Featherstone - Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Series:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Other Titles in:
Cultural Studies | Political Theory & Thought | Social Theory

282 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures. It draws together the contribution of outstanding contributors such as Fraser, Honneth, O'Neill, Bauman, Lister, Gilroy and De Swann to explore how difference and multiculturalism take on the arguments of universalist humanism. The approach taken derives from the traditions of cultural sociology and cultural studies rather than political science and philosophy.

The book takes seriously the argument that the social bond and recognition are in danger through globalization and deterritorialization. It is a major contribution to the emerging debate on the form of post-national forms of civil society.

Scott Lash and Mike Featherstone

Recognition and Difference

Politics, Identity, Multiculture

PART ONE: RECOGNITION

Nancy Fraser

Recognition without Ethics?

Axel Honneth

Recognition or Redistribution?

Changing Perspectives on the Moral Order of Society

Majid Yar

Recognition and the Politics of Human(e) Desire

John O'Neill

Oh, My Others! There Is No Other

Capital Culture, Class and Other-Wiseness

Ruth Lister

Towards a Citizen's Welfare State

The 3 + 2 `R's of Welfare Reform

Sylvia Walby

From Community to Coalition

The Politics of Recognition as the Handmaiden of the Politics of Equality in an Era of Globalization

PART TWO: DIFFERENCE

Zygmunt Bauman

The Great War of Recognition

Paul Gilroy

Joined-Up Politics and Post-Colonial Melancholia

Francoise Vergès

Vertigo and Emancipation

Creole Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Politics

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Nuestra America

Reinventing a Subaltern Paradigm of Recognition and Redistribution

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Hybridity, So What?

The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition

Sallie Westwood

Complex Choreography

Poliltcs and Regimes of Recognition

Abram De Swaan

Dyscivilization, Mass Extermination and the State

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Scott M Lash

Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, as well as a a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. He is a leading name within sociology and cultural studies, has written numerous books and articles over the last twenty years, and is currently the managing editor for the journal Theory, Culture and Society. More About Author

Mike Featherstone

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