Escaping each dualistic feature requires a corresponding reformation of nonhierarchical difference

Evidence

Dismantling a dualism based on difference requires the reconstruction of relationship and identity in terms of a non-hierarchical concept of difference. An appropriate relationship of non-hierarchical difference will have the following specific features: 1 Backgrounding (denial): a non-hierarchical concept of difference requires a move to systems of thought, accounting, perception, decision-making, which recognise the contribution of what has been backgrounded, and which acknowledge dependency. 2 Radical exclusion: a non-hierarchical concept of difference will affirm continuity, reconceive relata in more integrated ways, and break the false choice hyperseparation presents in reclaiming the denied area of overlap. 3 Incorporation (relational definition): a non-hierarchical concept of difference must review the identities of both underside and upperside. It can aim to rediscover a language and story for the underside, reclaim positive independent sources of identity and affirm resistance. 4 Instrumentalism: a non-hierarchical concept of difference implies recognising the other as a centre of needs, value and striving on its own account, a being whose ends and needs are independent of the self and to be respected. 5 Homogenisation: a non-hierarchical concept of difference involves recognising the complexity and diversity of the ‘other nations’ which have been homogenised and marginalised in their constitution as excluded other, as ‘the rest’. These remedies correspond to the central conceptual and cultural concerns of various liberation movements. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 241

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This five-step architecture of remedies is the systematic analytic payoff of the dualism theory — dense enough to carry a full lecture in Eco-Justice on identity reconstruction.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Reversal that revalues the subordinated identity without restructuring it stays trapped in dualism — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 244; Alternative logical systems already express otherness as nonhierarchical difference — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 237; Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Reversal that revalues the subordinated identity without restructuring it stays trapped in dualism #expands (0.85) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 244
• Runnymede’s open-closed binary reproduces the very dualism it condemns #exemplifies (0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 373
• Alternative logical systems already express otherness as nonhierarchical difference #qualifies (0.75) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 237
• Escaping moral dualism needs both rules and particular relationship, not either alone #qualifies (0.72) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 787
• Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy #expands (0.70)