The costs of recognition

Global politics, religion, and the colonial history of South Asia

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ID12916119
AutoresMaria Birnbaum (0000-0002-7641-3448, University of Bern, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen15
Número2
Páginas323-350
Fecha de publicación2023-06-13
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1752-9719 • E-ISSN: 1752-9727
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1752971923000052
OpenAlexW4380482658
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3

In this article I consider religion in international political scholarship and suggest a study of its epistemological politics and conceptual history. I argue that scholarship which strives to ‘engage’ or ‘recognize’ religion in global politics remain ignorant of the costs involved. Building on this argument, I ask if the troubles with recognizing religion reflect more basic qualities of recognition scholarship. Following the work by Jacques Rancière, Patchen Markell, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Jens Bartelson I argue that recognition has two faces and that along with its frequently acknowledged empowering aspect, it also comes with costs. In order to assess the costs of recognition I propose a study of its conditions of possibility, that is, a study of the ways in which the subjects of recognition become recognizable as such. In the final section of the paper, I apply this to the example of religion in global politics and the formation of the Muslim subject in the lead-up to the partition of British India and the founding of Pakistan

Argument (complex analysis · Colonialism · Epistemology · Partition (number theory · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Education and Schools

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