ABSTRACT
In capitalist societies, social justice claims have historically been framed as demands for a more equitable distribution of wealth. Increasingly, however, attention has shifted to demands for recognition, as various social groups have come to understand their oppression as rooted in cultural struggles over identity and difference. Some political economists have lamented this shift from the politics of redistribution to the politics of recognition, arguing that it has distracted us from critique of the economic system and has corresponded too conveniently with the rise of neoliberalism (Sayer, 2001).2
