We Have Never Been Liberal - Bourgeois Identity and the Criminal(ized) Other
Part of a special issue on emerging imaginaries of regulation, control, and repression. The writer discusses the processes of middle-class identity formation and maintenance that underpin much of the literature on the “punitive turn” in liberal middle-class sensibilities. He argues that the processe...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2005
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Social justice
Jahr: 2005, Band: 32, Heft: 1, Seiten: 5-19 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Part of a special issue on emerging imaginaries of regulation, control, and repression. The writer discusses the processes of middle-class identity formation and maintenance that underpin much of the literature on the “punitive turn” in liberal middle-class sensibilities. He argues that the processes of criminalization of a stereotypically deviant other do not simply result from the fundamental ontological crisis in middle-class identity in late modernity. He suggests that in many important respects, the evolution and maintenance of defensible liberal sensibilities have been grounded throughout modernity in the ongoing existence of a symbolically crafted and imagined inferior other that is palpably different, deviant, and endemically rebellious. |
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| ISSN: | 2327-641X |
