Identity recognition politics fit neatly into a rising neoliberalism that suppressed egalitarianism

Evidence

Fraser says: “The turn to recognition dovetailed all too neatly with a rising neoliberalism that wanted nothing more than to repress all memory of social egalitarianism” (109). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 688

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Brown’s ‘meritocratic materialism’: how recognition-based inclusion masks class inequality — a framing useful for reading Why Naqvi’s Home Boy’s economic disillusionment is political. — connects to: Neoliberalism succeeded by seducing workers out of class identification. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1649; New Labour’s emo-politics were fundamental to securing UK neoliberalism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1928
• QUESTION: How far does this argument generalize — does the same recognition/neoliberalism alignment apply in US Muslim fiction post-9/11?