Ulrike M Vieten

Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy Ulrike M Vieten

Marc Notes: Conference proceedings.; An innovative collection of politically and theoretically inspiring papers by feminist, queer and postcolonial writers. All authors engage with Iris Marion Young's politics of cultural difference and a 'politics of positional difference' read against her critique of normalisation. Biographical Note: Ulrike M. Vieten is a Senior Researcher at the University of Luxembourg. Her research focuses on Feminist Theory, normalization and difference; critical cosmopolitanism and nationalism, citizenship, mobility and migration. Vieten is the author of Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe: A Feminist Perspective (2012), and co-editor of Situated Politics of Belonging (2006). Table of Contents: Notes On Contributors PrefaceIntroduction Keeping Young's Legacy Alive: Why Do Normalisation And Difference Matter To Our Understanding Of 21st Century Notions Of Democracy And Inclusion?; Ulrike M. VietenContextualizing I. M. Young's LegacyTheorizing The Matter Of Societal Crisis: The De-Normalisation Of The NormativeSketch Of The Following Five Chapters1. Why Should We Think Of Structural Injustice, When Speaking About Culture?; Mariam Martinez BascunanRevisiting Iris Marion Young's Political Theory Of DifferenceImagination As EmancipationPuzzling Liberal Assumptions: Is The Common Good 'The Good' Or Perhaps, The 'Go(o)d' Of A Few?Why Social Groups Instead Of Ethnic Minorities? Culture Or Structure?Thinking Difference Differently: Naming Structural Differentiations FirstWhy Inclusion Rather Than Integration: The Struggle For Structural Transformation And Self DevelopmentWhy Normalisation Rather Than Toleration: Deconstructing The Logic Of Tolerance, And Its LimitsToward A Heterogeneous Model Of DemocracyOutlook2. Communicative Democracy And Solidarity Across Racial And Sexual Differences; Jose MedinaIntroductionCommunicative Democracy And Pluralistic SensibilitiesShared Responsibility And The Social Connection ModelSolidarity, Disidentification, And Queer ActivismConclusion3. Routed Connections In Late Modern Times; Halleh GhorashiIntroductionLate Modernity And Super DiversityLonging For The Roots Of The PastDeep DemocracyReviving The Connection To The CityFrom Comfort Zones To Safe SpacesDelayed Interspaces For ConnectionConnectedness Without NationalismConcluding Remarks4. Just Causes, Unruly Social Relations. Some Tensions Between Universalist Inclusive Ideals And Dutch Political Realities; Guno JonesIntroductionRepressed Hierarchies: Colonial AnalogiesPresent Day Symbolic Hierarchies Between CitizensObscuring Structural InjusticesSymbolic Hierarchies And Formal In-EqualitiesConcluding Remarks5. Diversity Politics And The Politics Of Difference; Sara De JongThe Politics Of DifferenceDiversity PoliticsDiversity Politics And 'Difference'Diversity Politics And Intersectional 'Difference'Justice Vs. UtilityThe 'Value Of Difference' And NormalisationConclusion