Recognition, Globally
I am currently conducting research for my book project titled "Recognition Globally" where I analyze recognition claims in a variety of contexts to help us better understand how to move toward a more inclusive society. Collaborative comparative interview-based case studies concern claims for political recognition by “invisible” US and UK working-class youth living in Manchester, New Hampshire; Manchester, UK; Tampere, Finland; and Osaka, Japan, with collaborators; recognition claims through environmental justice and work by indigenous people in the Northern Mariana Islands (Micronesia) and Anishinaabe Algonquin territories in Eastern Canada; and “impossible” cases where recognition is relatively inaccessible to certain groups (e.g. claims about racial discrimination in France and Germany, sexual discrimination in Senegal and China, and others). .
These studies all concern recognition in a different context of uncertainty about the future. They also concern groups that vary in terms of their “groupness” (the fluidity of their group identity and experienced symbolic boundaries), whether and how, and whether and how they experience misrecognition.
This project is supported by various programs at Harvard (Asia Center, Canada Program, FAS Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship, The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, and the Weatherhead Center for Advanced Research). External to Harvard, this project is supported by the Hewlett Foundation and Freedom Together Foundation.