Even failed political struggles confer social recognition as agents.

Evidence

Benjamin Chavis’s definition of environmental racism (1993: 3) includes ‘the history of excluding people of color from the mainstream environmental groups, decision-making boards, commissions, and regulatory bodies’. In addition, one can certainly see a link between a lack of individual or cultural recognition and a lack of valid participation in the political process. Simply put, misrecognition due to racism and/or classism creates real structural obstacles to political participation. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 239 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social democracy collapses when no one represents the labouring side — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 674; Political agency’s absence, not its demands, oppresses people; participation is euphoric. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2005; Political struggle generates historically emergent self-recognition of subjects — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 234 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The abstract human being stripped of political status loses fellow-recognition #complicates (0.75)
• Misrecognition creates structural obstacles that block political participation #complicates (0.72) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 239