Monica Mookherjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 460334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Mookherjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Mookherjee |
| SIGNATURE | MOOKHERJEE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Global Justice and Recognition Theory
In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition. This book uses recognition theories to develop a two-tiered response to the problem of global poverty. First, it highlights non-degradation, non-humiliation and the avoidance of social suffering as essential components to the ag…
Axel Honneth’s Cosmopolitanism
Amid now extensive debates about cosmopolitanism in political theory, this article explores the implications of Axel Honneth’s recognition theory for issues in international justice, not least the dire situation of poverty in the world. In contrast with a purely resource-distributive approach, the essay turns particularly to Honneth’s recent revival of the Lukácsian concept of reification as a process of self-distancing from the elementary humani…
Religion in Public Spaces
Journal Article Religion in Public Spaces: A European Perspective Get access Religion in Public Spaces: A European Perspective. Edited by Silvio Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli. London: Ashgate, 2012. 391pp. $134.95. Monica Mookherjee Monica Mookherjee Keele UniversityStaffordshire, United Kingdom [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 57, Issue 1, W…
Imagining new dialogues about human rights
This article explores the implications of Charles Taylor’s politics of recognition for a global feminist theory. The main contention is that Taylor’s thought implies an innovative dialogue about human rights that assists a flexible understanding of diverse women’s needs. This central claim is developed, however unexpectedly, by focusing on the controversial practice of footbinding. Prevalent in imperial China, this debilitating convention was sup…
Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation
Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims
Autonomy, Force and Cultural Plurality
Permitting dishonour
Affective citizenship
A serious problem confronting discourses on recognition is that of showing equal respect for citizens’ diverse cultural identities whilst at the same time attending to feminist concerns. This article focuses on the complex issues emerging from the recent legislation prohibiting the Muslim veil in French state schools. I respond to these problems by defending two conditions of a postcolonial and feminist approach to the politics of recognition. Th…
The morality of freedom and the patriarchal bargain
Equality in multiplicity
Luce Irigaray classically challenges what she takes to be the masculine foundations of knowledge in Western liberal culture. The present article contends not only that this epistemological challenge implicates a radical feminist politics, but that it is also more helpful in formulating a multicultural feminist theory than is often acknowledged by her readers. This is because her account responds to the false neutrality of liberal feminist approac…
Guest Editorial
Exclusion, Internalization, Harm
The article outlines a way in which internally pluralistic political communities might deal justly with apparently harmful gender-specific practices. It begins by demonstrating the inability of Walzer's recent theory of thin minimalism to integrate concerns for gender equality and cultural recognition. By focusing on the case of widow immolation in India, I show that an important problem lies in Walzer's failure to demonstrate that this is a `har…
Justice as provisionality
James Tully's account of a ‘post‐imperial constitutionalism’, in his book Strange Multiplicity, wrongly rejects the ideal of impartiality in modern political theory. Pace Tully, this paper argues for a conception of impartiality called ‘justice as provisionality’. This is demonstrated by explaining the concept of a ‘contrastive hard case’. These cases, exemplified both by indigenous peoples’ struggles for recognition and ‘traditional’ justificati…
Affective citizenship
A serious problem confronting discourses on recognition is that of showing equal respect for citizens’ diverse cultural identities whilst at the same time attending to feminist concerns. This article focuses on the complex issues emerging from the recent legislation prohibiting the Muslim veil in French state schools. I respond to these problems by defending two conditions of a postcolonial and feminist approach to the politics of recognition. Th…
Justice as provisionality
James Tully's account of a ‘post‐imperial constitutionalism’, in his book Strange Multiplicity, wrongly rejects the ideal of impartiality in modern political theory. Pace Tully, this paper argues for a conception of impartiality called ‘justice as provisionality’. This is demonstrated by explaining the concept of a ‘contrastive hard case’. These cases, exemplified both by indigenous peoples’ struggles for recognition and ‘traditional’ justificati…
Global Justice and Recognition Theory
In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition. This book uses recognition theories to develop a two-tiered response to the problem of global poverty. First, it highlights non-degradation, non-humiliation and the avoidance of social suffering as essential components to the ag…
Imagining new dialogues about human rights
This article explores the implications of Charles Taylor’s politics of recognition for a global feminist theory. The main contention is that Taylor’s thought implies an innovative dialogue about human rights that assists a flexible understanding of diverse women’s needs. This central claim is developed, however unexpectedly, by focusing on the controversial practice of footbinding. Prevalent in imperial China, this debilitating convention was sup…
Equality in multiplicity
Luce Irigaray classically challenges what she takes to be the masculine foundations of knowledge in Western liberal culture. The present article contends not only that this epistemological challenge implicates a radical feminist politics, but that it is also more helpful in formulating a multicultural feminist theory than is often acknowledged by her readers. This is because her account responds to the false neutrality of liberal feminist approac…
Guest Editorial
Exclusion, Internalization, Harm
The article outlines a way in which internally pluralistic political communities might deal justly with apparently harmful gender-specific practices. It begins by demonstrating the inability of Walzer's recent theory of thin minimalism to integrate concerns for gender equality and cultural recognition. By focusing on the case of widow immolation in India, I show that an important problem lies in Walzer's failure to demonstrate that this is a `har…
Justice as provisionality
James Tully's account of a ‘post‐imperial constitutionalism’, in his book Strange Multiplicity, wrongly rejects the ideal of impartiality in modern political theory. Pace Tully, this paper argues for a conception of impartiality called ‘justice as provisionality’. This is demonstrated by explaining the concept of a ‘contrastive hard case’. These cases, exemplified both by indigenous peoples’ struggles for recognition and ‘traditional’ justificati…
Guest Editorial
Exclusion, Internalization, Harm
The article outlines a way in which internally pluralistic political communities might deal justly with apparently harmful gender-specific practices. It begins by demonstrating the inability of Walzer's recent theory of thin minimalism to integrate concerns for gender equality and cultural recognition. By focusing on the case of widow immolation in India, I show that an important problem lies in Walzer's failure to demonstrate that this is a `har…
Affective citizenship
A serious problem confronting discourses on recognition is that of showing equal respect for citizens’ diverse cultural identities whilst at the same time attending to feminist concerns. This article focuses on the complex issues emerging from the recent legislation prohibiting the Muslim veil in French state schools. I respond to these problems by defending two conditions of a postcolonial and feminist approach to the politics of recognition. Th…
The morality of freedom and the patriarchal bargain
Equality in multiplicity
Luce Irigaray classically challenges what she takes to be the masculine foundations of knowledge in Western liberal culture. The present article contends not only that this epistemological challenge implicates a radical feminist politics, but that it is also more helpful in formulating a multicultural feminist theory than is often acknowledged by her readers. This is because her account responds to the false neutrality of liberal feminist approac…
Permitting dishonour
Autonomy, Force and Cultural Plurality
Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims
Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation
Imagining new dialogues about human rights
This article explores the implications of Charles Taylor’s politics of recognition for a global feminist theory. The main contention is that Taylor’s thought implies an innovative dialogue about human rights that assists a flexible understanding of diverse women’s needs. This central claim is developed, however unexpectedly, by focusing on the controversial practice of footbinding. Prevalent in imperial China, this debilitating convention was sup…
Religion in Public Spaces
Journal Article Religion in Public Spaces: A European Perspective Get access Religion in Public Spaces: A European Perspective. Edited by Silvio Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli. London: Ashgate, 2012. 391pp. $134.95. Monica Mookherjee Monica Mookherjee Keele UniversityStaffordshire, United Kingdom [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 57, Issue 1, W…
Axel Honneth’s Cosmopolitanism
Amid now extensive debates about cosmopolitanism in political theory, this article explores the implications of Axel Honneth’s recognition theory for issues in international justice, not least the dire situation of poverty in the world. In contrast with a purely resource-distributive approach, the essay turns particularly to Honneth’s recent revival of the Lukácsian concept of reification as a process of self-distancing from the elementary humani…
Global Justice and Recognition Theory
In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition. This book uses recognition theories to develop a two-tiered response to the problem of global poverty. First, it highlights non-degradation, non-humiliation and the avoidance of social suffering as essential components to the ag…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 works)