When I hear the word culture

Bibliographic Data

ID7739635
AuthorsCharles R Hale (,, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume32
Issue3
Pages497-509
Publication date2018-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09502386.2017.1420089
OpenAlexW2795028626
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited8

This afterword summarizes the principal contributions of the articles in this collection, noting both common themes and points of difference. All six articles highlight serious problems and unintended consequences that result when the recognition of rights grounded in cultural difference, or expressions of respect for cultural particularity, take place without engaging the deep structural inequalities that accompany cultural plurality. They also raise key differences, some contextual others conceptual, as to people’s experiences in effectively using openings of cultural recognition towards more expansive ends. Consequential differences also arise as to the best practical and theoretical means to contest racism. Especially in these dangerous times, my argument (and theirs) is not against cultural rights and recognition, but rather, in favour of approaches that critically appraise both the possibilities and limitations of such struggles – that is, to finish the sentence, ‘when I hear the word culture ... ’ taking seriously its cautionary message

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · CONTEST · Epistemology · Expansive · Linguistics · Political science · Racism · Sentence · Sociology · Word (group theory · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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