New forms of reflexive ethnization

Value-normative universalism and ethnic particularisms

authored by

Mathias Bös

Abstract

A common theme in analyses of social problems today is the increasing importance of different aspects of social identity in political claim making. Benhabib observes, “Since the late 1970s demands for the recognition of identities based on gender, race, language, ethnic background, and sexual orientation have been challenging the legitimacy of established constitutional democracies�? (2002: viii). Taylor and Honneth (1992) have made similar, but separate, arguments about the growing signifi cance of the “politics of recognition�? (Taylor 1992). This growing demand for the social and political inclusion of ethnic groups is often interpreted as the rise of ethnic particularism. But particularistic demand for recognition in politics typically refers to value-normative universalism as an integral part of our global multi-culture (Nederveen Pieterse 2007), as epitomized in the omnipresent discourse on human rights.

External Organisation(s)

Philipps-Universität Marburg

Type

Contribution to book/anthology

Pages

268-279

No. of pages

12

Publication date

2011

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203803394-25 (Access: Unknown)