Review article
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.59.1.1
Culture, Habitus, Identity: Rethinking some Presuppositions of the Politics of Recognition
Saša Puzić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7231-7312
; Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The main aim of the paper is to examine selected elements of the multiculturalist politics of
recognition, while considering the interrelations of cultural-identity and structural aspects of
social practice. For that purpose: 1) key concepts of the multiculturalist theoretical position
are presented; 2) Bourdieu’s concept of habitus is discussed, which points to confinements
and social derivatedness of subjective dispositions; 3) the relationship between the notions of
habitus and identity is questioned and 4) the demands for recognizing minority identitites are
associated with the demands for redistribution within the theoretical framework of N. Fraser.
The analysis revealed that the shaping of existing identities towards more fluid and debinarized
identity patterns is an important element for purposeful activating and politicizing of minority
identities. This process needs to be based on the awareness of structural limits found in all
reflexive reconstructions of identity.
Keywords
culture; habitus; identity; multiculturalism; the politics of recognition; the politics of redistribution
Hrčak ID:
256723
URI
Publication date:
29.4.2021.
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