Recognition without redistributive power fails to secure freedom for marginalized groups

Evidence

The capacity to name oneself in the order of thought … does not guarantee on its own the material conditions and resources, the material power necessary for social flourishing and living freely.” He went on: “Political economy has disappeared almost altogether from contemporary cultural studies and, by implication, from much of the identity-driven analysis concerning multiculturalism.… [This disappearance serves] to cover (up) the political and economic roots of … marginalisation. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 163

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the recognition-vs-redistribution debate (Nancy Fraser) that frames identity politics critiques; connects to the tension in Hamid’s and Naqvi’s novels between cultural visibility and material precarity. — connects to: Voluntary ‘best practices’ guidelines legitimize unconsented facial recognition by dressing it in toothless language — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 791; Maldistribution cannot be cured without prior social and structural recognition — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 89; Recognition theory supplements rather than replaces distributional justice — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 100 (+4 more)
• DEFINE: Supplies the critical vocabulary for distinguishing cultural recognition from material flourishing — a distinction the reader can deploy when reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Home Boy.