Redist vs recog & gender

Right to Redistributionvs.

Right to Recognition?Gender

Spring 12

• Redistribution = Model of social justice

• Recognition = Model of individual rights

‘Giving every one a chance’ is recognition or redistribution?

From a capitalist society of producers (Smith/Ricardo/Marx/Mill labour theory) to a society of consumers (Neoclassical marginal utility theory)

Collapse of collective redistribution claims (unions)

+Growth of inequality

Ulrich Beck

“We seek biographical solutions to Systemic contradictions

We look for individual salvations from shared problems”

Gender Differences

• Equality or Difference?

Feminist movement initially about recognition: gender differences instrument of male dominance

What about differences among women?

Feminism, Recognition & Redistribution

• Gender two-dimensional social differentiation:– Economic structure (market)– Social status order (culture)

• Injustice involve maldistribution & misrecognition simultaneous and separate

Feminism, Recognition & Redistribution

• Redistribution: gender serve as basic organizing principle of economic structure– Fundamental division: paid “productive”

labor; unpaid “reproductive” and domestic labor

– Within paid: gender-based exploitation, economic marginalization and deprivation

Feminism, Recognition & Redistribution

• Redistribution & gender justice:– Abolish gender division of labor– Legal framework– Women empowerment and participation

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• Recognition: cultural patterns and values ‘androcentrism’

‘Androcentrism’ = institutionalized patterns of cultural value that privileges traits associate ‘masculinity’ & devaluate everything code as ‘feminine’

How and where its representations?

Feminism, Recognition & Redistribution

• Recognition: cultural patterns. How and where its representations?– Family law, heritage law/custom, …– Popular culture and everyday interactions

• Result = status of ‘subordination’– Sexual assault, domestic violence, harassment– Media stereotype– Exclusion for public sphere

Injustice of recognition

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• Justice require independent and combined measures of both dimensions

• Whether the two dimensions are of equal weight? What are the interactions and synergies? What about the inter-generational transition of injustice (boys and girls) –

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• More questions. Societies encompass at least two analytical ordering modes: economic and cultural. How they relate?– Are they institutionally differentiate or fused?– The class structure and the status hierarchy diverge or

coincide? – Do malditribution and misrecognition convert each other?

• Traditional & ‘marketized’ societies. How these work?

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• More Issues.

• Affirmative remedy and transformative remedy

• Productive & unproductive work: unpaid work subsidize the rest of the economy

• Family Care, why women? Care deficit in the south and pay care market in the north

Indigenous people

The UN declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People provides that they “have the right to self-determination”.

Autonomy or self-government in which matters?

Control over their institutions and State should obtain their consent before adopting measures that may affect them

Indigenous people some concepts

• Multiculturalism: acknowledge the existence of several cultural groups without necessarily looking at the power relations between them.

• Interculturalism: focus on revert current power structures and focus on equity

Multiculturalism Debate

• Multiculturalism: positive view of group differences and group identities

Is cultural pluralism a value in its own or its value drives from improving the shared existence?

Many cultures, one humanity?

Interculturalism Debate

• How to fulfill the right to diversity and equity?

• How to solve tension within indigenous people and other minorities and the rest of society?