Conflicts over recognition within “peripheral modernity”: between equality and distinction.
Our article begins with the argument that the category of recognition, when used within the context of peripheral modernity, implies a social configuration that is quite differentiated from the context in which it was originally elaborated. This is necessary for our ensuing discussion of how struggl...
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| Lenguaje: | Portugués |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2009v8n14p447 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-033&d=article11631oai |
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| Sumario: | Our article begins with the argument that the category of recognition,
when used within the context of peripheral modernity, implies a social
configuration that is quite differentiated from the context in which it was
originally elaborated. This is necessary for our ensuing discussion of how
struggles for recognition can in the end provide a basis for and legitimate
social inequality in Brazil. In countries of this sort, access to social recognition
tends to be built not through struggles for recognition as subjects
who are bearers of rights but on the contrary, through the struggle to mark
out a difference that makes it possible for them to access the material and
symbolic gains associated with this differentiated position. In order to
explore the analytic possibilities that this argument opens up, we look at collective organizing experiences of collectors of recyclable materials in
the state of Rio Grande do Sul. We demonstrate that, in opposition to the
discourses and intentions that undergird the organizations we researched,
the struggles for recognition that they undertake are to a large extent
marked by their effort to differentiate themselves from others who find
themselves in a similarly subaltern condition, thus establishing competition
for access to particular scarce material and symbolic goods..
Keywords: peripheral modernity, social recognition, distinction, catadores. |
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