“Identity or Status?”
7/17/03
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Endnotes
1
I argue against Fraser’s well-known claim that there is an chronic dilemma between
struggles for recognition and those for redistribution in (reference suppressed).
2
There is also no reference in either of (Fraser 2000, 2001) to the need for a fundamental
restructuring of prevailing capitalist market structures. This absence, however, is most
likely due not to a change in Fraser’s substantive position, but to the topical focus on
recognition and identity politics in the two pieces.
3
Jon Mandle stressed the potential illiberalism in a deconstructive approach to identity in
his comments on an earlier version of this paper at the Eastern Division meeting of the
American Philosophical Association, December 2001. I’m thankful to him for the
insights and discussion.
4
See, for instance, (Fraser 2000: 114): “On the status model, moreover, misrecognition is
not relayed through free-floating cultural representations or discourses. It is perpetrated,
as we have seen, through institutionalized patterns—in other words, through the workings
of social institutions that regulate interaction according to parity-impeding cultural
norms.”
5
I rely on here on the same excerpt from Economy and Society that Fraser refers to.
6
See, for example, (Weber 1946: 187-188): “In content, status honor is normally
expressed by the fact that above all else a specific style of life can be expected from all
those who wish to belong to the circle. Linked with this expectation are restrictions on
‘social’ intercourse. … As soon as there is not a mere individual and socially irrelevant
Convention