An ideology critique of recognition: Judith Butler in the context of the contemporary debate on recognition

Lepold, Kristina

doi:10.1111/1467-8675.12368

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“…Third, according to [66], "recognition" is a key concept in contemporary social and political thought. The fundamental insight associated with this concept is that we cannot really be who we are or who we want to be if others do not treat us in certain ways.…”

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A Qualitative Photo Elicitation Research Study to elicit the perception of young children with Developmental Disabilities such as ADHD and/or DCD and/or ASD on their participation

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Participation, defined as 'involvement in life situations' according to the World Health Organisation, is a well-recognized concept and critical indicator of quality of life. In addition it has become an important outcome measure in child rehabilitation. However, little is known about the level of participation of young children with Developmental Disabilities. The aim of this study was to capture their subjective experiences of participation. An adapted informed consent based on a comic strip was used to get the children's assent. A Photo Elicitation study was used, in which photographs were taken by the children when they were involved in meaningful activities. The photographs were then used to facilitate communication with the children and to initiate in depth-interviews. Forty-seven interviews with 16 children between five and nine years were conducted based on their photographs. This method generated rich data, confirming that young children with Developmental Disabilities were able to inform us accurately on their experiences of participation. Data was analysed by means of an inductive thematic analysis. Results showed that children perceived their participation as satisfying when they can play, learn and join in family gatherings resulting in feelings of inclusion, recognition and belonging. When there are-on occasions-moments that their participation was obstructed, the children used two strategies to resolve it. Or they walked away from it and choose not to participate, or when autonomously motivated for the activity, they relied primarily on their context (i.e. mothers) as enabling their participation. Related to the data, children discussed themes related to their person, activities, connections and mediators between those themes. These themes fit well within earlier and current research on the subject of participation.

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“…Butler's critique is not based on a simple defence or embrace of a politics of recognition. As Kristina Lepold points out, Butler's conceptualisation of recognition should rather be understood as an ideology critique since to Butler, recognition is ‘undeniably ethically significant to those who receive it, [and that] recognition can simultaneously serve social functions behind the backs of the participants in relations of recognition and may be implicated in the reproduction of problematic social orders’ (2018: 475). As is well known, Butler's main critique of Fraser is targeted at the distinction that Fraser makes between material and cultural injustices (or what Fraser herself describes as culturally and economically based injustices).…”

Section: The Butler–fraser Debatementioning

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Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate

Johansson Wilén

2023

Acta Sociologica

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The relation between different forms of oppressive structures has been an object of dispute throughout the history of feminism. One of the most influential debates devoted to this issue is the one between Judith Butler and Nancy Fraser during the 1990s. Although the debate attracted a great deal of attention, and both thinkers have subsequently developed their theories by introducing novel concepts to describe oppression as well as the conditions of contemporary emancipatory movements, they have not continued to engage in each other's work. This article offers a critical reading of the positions that Fraser and Butler took in the 1990s debate, as well as an identification of shifts in their thinking ensuing from the debate. A particular interest of the article is their conceptualisations of the grounds for political alliances among groups with distinct experiences of oppression. The article not only offers a critique of both Butler's and Fraser's positions in the 1990s debate but also argues that the way in which Fraser's trajectory has come to directly address the issue of the capitalist social order, and which can also be read as an implicit self-critique, is more satisfactory than Butler's later work on precarity.

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“…In a recent exchange with Axel Honneth, responding to critical questions by Honneth and posing the same to him (Butler, 2021a(Butler, , 2021b, Judith Butler illuminates her thinking on a theme that has had a presence in her published writing since the beginning: that of recognition (Butler, 1987;Lepold, 2018;Roman-Lagerspetz (2021). As recognition is the focus of the exchange between the two thinkers, aspects of it as Butler sees them now come to the fore with previously unseen explicitness.…”

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Recognizability and recognition as human—Learning from Butler and Manne

Ikäheimo

2022

J Theory Soc Behav

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Judith Butler and Kate Manne shed, in different ways, doubt on the capacity of the recognition‐paradigm to comprehend phenomena of crucial ethical and political importance: whereas Butler argues that deeper than recognition are “frames” in light of which individuals and groups appear as recognizable human beings at all, Manne argues that too much has been made of the capacity of the idea of being recognized as human or person to explain interhuman cruelty and violence. In short, for Butler there is something even more important than recognition that precedes it, whereas for Manne matters of vital (or lethal) importance happen after, or on top of, recognition. In my view both are pointing at crucially important issues, but I am more optimistic of the capacity of the notion of recognition to deal with them. I present an account of recognition as personification, which can both meet the challenges and unite the seemingly disparate views of the two authors as complementary perspectives to, and focussed on dialectically related aspects of, a whole. This whole is recognition, or lack thereof, of particular individuals and groups as full‐fledged persons.

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An ideology critique of recognition: Judith Butler in the context of the contemporary debate on recognition

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

A Qualitative Photo Elicitation Research Study to elicit the perception of young children with Developmental Disabilities such as ADHD and/or DCD and/or ASD on their participation

A Qualitative Photo Elicitation Research Study to elicit the perception of young children with Developmental Disabilities such as ADHD and/or DCD and/or ASD on their participation

Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate

Recognizability and recognition as human—Learning from Butler and Manne

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