Strategies of normative ambivalence in critical theories of recognition for the decolonised diagnosis of conflict and oppression

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dc.contributor.authorAllsobrook, Christopheren_US
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-30T17:32:18Z
dc.date.available2026-08-30T17:32:18Z
dc.date.issued2024-12en_US
dc.descriptionResearch paper
dc.description.abstractA context of protracted postcolonial misrecognition and social injustice brought most of the contributors to this special issue together. This context raises an acute awareness of the ideological limitations not only of the dominant normative frameworks of recognition, developed by social and political theorists such as Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, and Charles Taylor, but of the African philosophical conceptions of recognition represented by ubuntu. What is the ethical or normative status of the insights into social ontology that we find in theories of recognition? The authors acknowledge the entanglement of norms of recognition in contested relations of power that influence the formation of subjects and the normative ambivalence of recognition which enables and constrains subjective agency. Ongoing inequality and social injustice makes palpable the practical effects of norms of mis/recognition. The authors reinterpret the concept of recognition to allow for normative ambivalence and ideological sensitivity in the current postcolonial setting.
dc.identifier.citationAllsobrook, C. (2024) ‘Strategies of normative ambivalence in critical theories of recognition for the decolonised diagnosis of conflict and oppression’, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 71(181), pp. 1–20. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2024.7118101.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1755-2567
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/5065
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherWiley
dc.subjectAmbivalence
dc.subjectCritical theory
dc.subjectIdeology
dc.subjectPostcolonial conflict
dc.titleStrategies of normative ambivalence in critical theories of recognition for the decolonised diagnosis of conflict and oppressionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-7701-0811

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