Honneth and Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition

This book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth's recognition theory as its theoretical foundation. In so doing, it also reveals the sophistication and productivity of Honneth's recognition model for multiculturalism scholarship.

Honneth and Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition is concerned with the redress of intercultural related injustice and, more widely, the effective integration of ethically and culturally diverse societies. Bona Anna analyses the everyday experiences of cross-cultural misrecognition in a distinctive ethno-cultural group, including social norms that have been marginalised in the contexts of employment. In this endeavour, she deploys key constructs from Honneth's theory to argue for individual and social integration to be conceptualised as a process of inclusion through stables forms of recognition, rather than as a process of inclusion through forms of group representation and participation.

This book will appeal to students and academics of multiculturalism interested in learning more about the usefulness of Honneth's recognition theory in intercultural inquiry, including the ways in which it can circumvent some of the impasses of classical multiculturalism.

Provides a positive assessment of the productivity of Axel Honneth's recognition theory in multiculturalism scholarship Applies recognition theory to a study of intercultural phenomena in the domain of paid work Breaks from traditional multiculturalist view of integration as proceeding via processes of inclusion through forms of group representation and participation

Autorentext
Bona Anna successfully completed her PhD at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research interests include recognition theory, intercultural studies, paid and unpaid work and community development.

Inhalt

1. Intentions, Themes, Participants and Structure.-Section 1.- 2. Recognition Theory, Critical Social Inquiry and Multiculturalism.- 3.Everyday Multiculturalism, Recognition Theory and the Research Methodology.- 4. Work, Esteem Recognition and Multiculturalism .- Section 2.- 5. Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition and 'Who One Is At Work'.- 6. Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition and 'What One Does For Work'.- 7. Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition and 'How One Practises At Work'.- 8. Conclusions and Future Directions.