TY - JOUR
T1 - Reassessing the multicultural project
T2 - comments on Chin/Levey’s “Recognition as acknowledgment: symbolic politics in multicultural democracies”
AU - Galeotti, Anna Elisabetta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The article stresses two strong points in the essay by Chin/Levey: first, the emphasis on the symbolic dimension of the multicultural project, and second, the novel understanding of recognition as an acknowledgment of minority members as full citizens in the polity. The comments then focus on (1) Charles Taylor’s view of recognition as equal respect for culture; (2) politicizing differences; (3) the distinction between recognition and rights (4) social standards.
AB - The article stresses two strong points in the essay by Chin/Levey: first, the emphasis on the symbolic dimension of the multicultural project, and second, the novel understanding of recognition as an acknowledgment of minority members as full citizens in the polity. The comments then focus on (1) Charles Taylor’s view of recognition as equal respect for culture; (2) politicizing differences; (3) the distinction between recognition and rights (4) social standards.
KW - Multicultural project
KW - equal respect
KW - equal status of citizenship
KW - recognition
KW - social standards
KW - symbolic politics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139113320&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2022.2124121
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2022.2124121
M3 - Article
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 46
SP - 484
EP - 494
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 3
ER -