Procedural participation functions as the hinge joining recognition to distribution

Evidence

This sort of interpretation of procedural justice misses the point of those like Fraser, Honneth, and Young, who insist on a thoroughly integrated understanding of justice. Importantly, these theorists, and others, are beginning to note that the relationship between justice as equity and justice as recognition is played out in the procedural realm, as both hinder the ability of individuals and communities to participate. The point is to focus on the direct link between a lack of respect and recognition and a decline in a person’s membership and participation in the greater community, including the political and institutional order. If you are not recognized, you do not participate; if you do not participate, you are not recognized. In this respect, justice must focus on the political process as a way to address both the inequitable distribution of social goods and the conditions undermining social recognition. Democratic and participatory decision-making procedures are then both an element of, and a condition for, social justice (Young 1990: 23); they simultaneously challenge institutionalized exclusion, a social culture of misrecognition, and current distributional patterns. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 109

Categorization

• XREF: This mutual recognition-participation loop is the analytic tool the reader wants to carry into the Soundscape and Legal Systems readings — procedural justice is where recognition failures become distributable harms like exclusion from noise-regulation or EJ hearings. — connects to: Justice is trivalent because participation depends on both distribution and recognition — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 120; Procedural justice requires every governed person to have an effective voice in decisions — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 113; Recognition-based conflict theory extends rather than replaces distributional models — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 105
• DEFINE: Defines how procedural justice operates within the integrated recognition-distribution framework, sharpening the three-part typology’s middle term.

Broader Connections

• Recognition-based conflict theory extends rather than replaces distributional models #expands (0.72) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 105