A book with provocative implications for students and scholars of social movements and identity politics, Misrecognized Materialists offers a fresh and important perspective on Canada’s constitutional struggles over civic symbolism and identity.
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A truly innovative analysis on both conceptual and empirical grounds. Very few Canadian studies of social movement politics have a comparable historical reach, or examine so large a range of key movement actors, and none to date have re-interpreted social movement action via a critique of New politics theory and its applications. Matt James does much to illuminate – and legitimate – the complex cases that social movement organizations have made on behalf of social esteem and social justice.
– David Laycock, editor of Representation and Democratic Theory
Misrecognized Materialists challenges the assertion that there is a deep tension between the politics of recognition and the politics of redistribution. Although ‘new’ social movements are often seen as reinforcing a ‘postmaterialist’ agenda focusing on identity and belonging, implicitly undermining an agenda of economic redistribution, Matt James convincingly shows that social movements have advanced materialist agendas from the very beginning, and have not stopped doing so. A compelling book.
– Keith Banting, co-editor of Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies
– David Laycock, editor of Representation and Democratic Theory
Misrecognized Materialists challenges the assertion that there is a deep tension between the politics of recognition and the politics of redistribution. Although ‘new’ social movements are often seen as reinforcing a ‘postmaterialist’ agenda focusing on identity and belonging, implicitly undermining an agenda of economic redistribution, Matt James convincingly shows that social movements have advanced materialist agendas from the very beginning, and have not stopped doing so. A compelling book.
– Keith Banting, co-editor of Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies
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Matt James is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria.
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