Identity and Justice: Conflicts, Contradictions and Contingencies

ISBN-13: 9789052011974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 161 str.

Strath, Bo

Opis

Debbie Rodan adds breadth and depth to the field of literary, cultural and gender studies through a meticulous investigation of notions such as re-presentation, justice and legitimation. She examines their historical and philosophical trajectories as well as their politico-juridical underpinnings through an ambitious and timely recuperation of the Enlightenment projects of rationality and emancipation.
The point of departure is a critical engagement with the theoretical work of John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas and Jean-Francois Lyotard. Rodan claims each can be read as foregrounding diverse ways of constituting identity within the social world. Recognition of other people s identity at the social, cultural and national level is crucial to the possibility of justice.
Rodan tests the concepts of justice, legitimation and identity through detailed critical readings/analyses of a range of texts. The range includes the film East is East, a number of auto/biographical narratives as well as the Australian government report, Bringing Them Home, which is concerned with the removal of Aboriginal children from their families. She avoids polarising Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal notions of justice, identity etc. by including texts which raise and problematise questions of ethnicity and gender."

Spis treści

Contents: Identity Formation - Gender Identity - Race Identity - Liberalism - Legitimation - Justice.

O autorze

The Author: Debbie Rodan is a lecturer in Media Studies at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. She has published on the discourses of democracy and liberalism, the intersection of postcolonial/feminist theory, gender and race in selected narrative forms.