ABSTRACT
The political theory of recognition has come to prominence because of the major reconfiguration of the social, cultural and political landscape since the 1970s. The rise of various forms of identity politics, associated especially with questions of race and ethnicity, gender, lesbian and gay politics, and various other forms of difference and Diversity, has at the very least challenged, and in some places displaced, more traditional forms of political mobilization, especially a politics of class and economic divisions.
