The Law and Politics of Inclusion - Hardcover

Venditti, Valeria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815356579 ISBN 13: 9780815356578

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

On the one hand, inclusion constitutes a powerful framework of political agency, as people can gain access to forms of recognition granting legal protection and social visibility. On the other hand, inclusion requires their adherence to fixed matrices incorporating specific and limited forms of life. This opposition reflects a similar division within the academic field: between liberal advocates of inclusion and those who regard it as a form of assimilation, where differences are absorbed and tempered.

Uncovering the deficiencies in both viewpoints, this book analyzes inclusion by attending to the active role of subjects looking for inclusion, and mobilizing inclusive processes. Inclusion is thus reconceived as an ongoing, engaging movement of category-production, according to which there is no straightforward opposition between effective inclusion and assimilation. The book thus draws the idea of inclusion out of this opposition in order to delineate a form of political connectedness based on smaller social networks of solidarity that, although entailing some sort of normativity, are nevertheless characterized by fluidity and proximity. In this way, inclusion comes to be more productively, and more plausibly, reframed: as a web in which inclusive processes appear as moments of the renegotiation and rearticulation of a subjectivity in constant flux.

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About the Author

Valeria Venditti is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Philosophy at the University College Cork. Her research revolves around the issues of legal inclusion and political engagement. She got her Ph.D. at Sapienza, University of Rome and carried out her research in collaboration with Universiteit Antwerpen, Glasgow University and Charles University in Prague.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815356579
• ISBN 13: 9780815356578
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148