Justice is trivalent because participation depends on both distribution and recognition

Evidence

The point here is absolutely crucial: it is not just that political and cultural institutions create conditions that hamper equity and recognition, but that both distributive inequity and misrecognition hamper real participation in political and cultural institutions. Issues of justice are not just bivalent, but trivalent. In this case, improved participatory mechanisms can help meliorate both other forms of injustice; but those forms of injustice must be addressed in order to improve participation. For a ‘parity of participation’, Fraser argues, we need both objective and intersubjective conditions to be met. Objective conditions include a distribution of resources to ensure participants’ independence and voice. Subjective conditions require ‘that institutionalized cultural patterns of interpretation and evaluation express equal respect for all participants and ensure equal opportunity for achieving social esteem’ (p. 30). For Fraser, participatory parity comes with the satisfaction of two conditions: the ‘respect in institutional patterns of cultural value’, and the resources to enable participation (2001: 29). It is absolutely crucial to tie together social subordination and misrecognition with maldistribution. It is not a question of one or the other as the focus of justice, but of both simultaneously. Fraser is adamant on this: to remedy maldistribution we must focus on political–economic restructuring; but such considerations will only come along with recognition, where the remedy is in cultural and symbolic changes in how we regard the presently misrecognized. Only then will participatory parity, and procedural justice, be attained. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 120

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up the full three-part typology with Fraser’s parity-of-participation as the hinge, plus the objective/subjective conditions pairing.
• XREF: This is the analytic tool the reader plans to carry into Legal Systems and Soundscape — where participation requires both resources and respect. — connects to: Procedural participation functions as the hinge joining recognition to distribution — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 109; Justice comprises interlinked distribution, recognition, participation, and capability — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 53; Justice requires addressing recognition and distribution as distinct yet linked injustices. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 65 (+11 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the parity-of-participation double condition map cleanly onto how EJ litigation actually fails plaintiffs on either the resource or the respect axis?

Broader Connections

• Two separate kinds of justice govern the attention movement #qualifies (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 245