RT Article
T1 Differentiated Citizenship and Contextualized Morality
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 7
IS 2
SP 163
OP 177
A1 Mitnick, Eric J.
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785693085
AB Political theorists, increasingly, are realizing the virtues of contextuality to conceptual analysis. Just as theory may provide useful standards for the assessment of political practices, so may application of theoretical constructs within particular contexts provide a critical corrective to theory. This essay relates work undertaken within sociolegal studies applying a constitutive methodology to such efforts to contextualize political theorizing. The essay describes how the emphasis placed by constitutive theory on locality and meaning entails a contextual analysis. The essay then demonstrates how a constitutive and contextual approach can enhance our understanding of the moral issues surrounding differentiated citizenship policy. While the most obvious cost associated with differentiated citizenship policy is a loss in formal equality, a contextual assessment demonstrates the prospect of an even deeper, though ultimately contingent, moral loss in self-invention.
K1 Social Group
K1 self-invention
K1 Rights
K1 legal categorization
K1 Identity
K1 differentiated citizenship
K1 Culture
K1 constitutive theory
DO 10.1023/B:ETTA.0000032759.77426.b6