Justice requires seeing how ideologies both create and hide hierarchies among people.
Evidence
If we really want to further the cause of justice, we need to understand how discursive and material structures – race, capitalism, nation-states, orientalism, family, and liberalism itself – shape our very emergence as differentiated ‘human’ by establishing and then occluding hierarchical relations among us. We need, in other words, a view of the human that focuses on the social and psychological processes of self-formation in a context that acknowledges, as Chow states, how we can be ‘at the mercy’ of broad ideological and social structures that in many ways ‘speak and act’ us. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 362
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Distills the relational-structural account of the human: identities are formed by and occlude hierarchical structures.
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: ‘speak and act us’ — Chow’s exact framing of ideological interpellation beyond Althusser’s hailing.