Discrimination Without Traits
From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9446142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Popescu-Sarry (0000-0003-2923-9106, University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 890-902 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055423000679 |
| OpenAlex | W4386069587 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 39 |
Theories of discrimination typically select properties such as race, gender, sexuality, or ethnicity as being of special concern. These properties, which are customarily identified as genuine grounds of discrimination, are also at the forefront of constructionist efforts to understand reality as a product of social interactions. Theories of discrimination have so far neglected the important question of how understanding the nature of these properties impacts our theoretical views of the kind of phenomenon discrimination is. This article outlines some pitfalls of assuming away complexities regarding the ontology of the underlying properties, and systematically develops a constructionist account of discrimination, which I call Discrimination without Traits. I argue pursuing a constructionist view of grounds reveals discrimination to be not a discrete process involving a discriminator and a victim, but an ongoing process of (re)negotiating social reality that is fundamentally political. This uncovers neglected avenues for designing political remedies to discrimination
Epistemology · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Product (mathematics · Race (biology · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Strict constructionism · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Formation of a Persecuting Society
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Politics and Vision
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination
Blackness Visible
Ethnicity without Groups
Multiculturalism without Culture
The New Politics of Disablement
Essays on Actions and Events
Faces of Inequality
Curious Disappearances
Racial Profiling And Cumulative Injustice
Moral Dimensions
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
Mapping the Margins
Listening
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What Is Discrimination
Shades of Brown
Resisting Reality
The Persistence of "Superstition and Idolatry" among Rural French Calvinists
Dehumanization, Essentialism, and Moral Psychology
Central Problems in Social Theory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |