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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.
From Community to Coalition: The Politics of Recognition as the Handmaiden of the Politics of Equality in an Era of Globalization
From Community to Coalition: The Politics of Recognition as the Handmaiden of the Politics of Equality in an Era of Globalization
LASH (1996B) HAS rightly argued in his debate with Bauman (1996) that there is a need to go beyond the polarities of individualism and communitarianism. There is a need to ground analysis in a presumption of social bonding, in the face of the relentless over-preoccupation of much contemporary theory with difference, while rejecting the hierarchy which is integral to communitarianism. In the introduction to this volume, Featherstone and Lash (2001) argue that ‘recognition’ is a useful concept in the analysis of political culture which ...
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