(Mis)recognition, Social Inequality and Social Justice: Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu

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Terry Lovell
Routledge, 2007 M09 12 - 224 pages

Nancy Fraser’s work provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a powerful frame for the analysis of political, moral and pragmatic dilemmas in an era of global capitalism and cultural pluralism. It has been developed through dialogue with key contemporary thinkers, including an extended critical exchange with Axel Honneth that touches importantly upon the work of the late Pierre Bourdieu on social suffering. All the essays collected here engage with the work of one or both of these thinkers’. They consider some of the conceptual and philosophical contentions that Fraser’s and Bourdieu’s models have provoked, and offer some compelling examples of their analytical power.

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Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Reframing justice in a globalizing world
17
The dynamics of Nancy Frasers critical theory
36
4 Sexuality subjectivity and economics?
49
A sociologically rich model for a global capitalist era?
66
6 Class moral worth and recognition
88
The case of social capital
103
Social identity and representation in British politics
126
A critical social policy perspective
157
The adjudication of social rights in South Africa
177
Index
202
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Terry Lovell is a professor in the department of sociology at Warwick University and has published on feminist social and cultural theory.

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