Inclusion and exclusion

Bibliographic Data

ID4180974
AuthorsRobert E Goodin (0000-0002-1704-5817, Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume37
Issue2
Pages343-371
Publication date1996-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003975600007219
OpenAlexW2068806531
LanguageEN
Citations received54
References cited105

Many familiar political projects-among them, demands for participation, for citizenship and for free movement and open borders-have been recently subsumed within a larger crusade against 'social exclusion'. But each of these political projects seems better understood, and better pursued, in its own original terms. Furthermore, inclusionist appeals logically backfire: explicitly they are expansionist, urging the stretching of boundaries of membership so as to include those who were previously excluded; but every inclusion implies an exclusion (there can be no 'inside' without an 'outside'); so indusionist appeals are implicitly consenting to a closed community, albeit one with a rather broader catchment. We ought to be striving instead for different kinds of communities, ones less internally inclusive and less externally exclusive. This amounts to a call for multiple overlapping jurisdictions, with many places where one can seek social support and many places where one might lodge a demand or file an appeal

Appeal · Citizenship · Expansionism · Inclusion (mineral) · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social exclusion · Social science · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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