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In this chapter, Charles Taylor’s politics of recognition is analysed to identify the main assumptions and premises underlying his proposed politics. I will criticize these assumptions on the basis that these premises can lead to mono-culturalism and can facilitate and legitimize racial and cultural profiling. I will show that Taylor’s politics of recognition is a reductionist politics, and as such, it always already leaves some people or cultural groups unrecognized or misrecognized. I will employ two profile articles of Iranian immigrants written in recent years towards my argument that Taylor’s politics of recognition is inadequate and problematic for the task of bringing about a just representation of various cultural groups in Western nations and especially in Canada.
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Shidmehr, N. (2012). Towards a New Politics of Recognition. In: Wright, H.K., Singh, M., Race, R. (eds) Precarious International Multicultural Education. Transgressions, vol 84. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-894-0_5
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