L’utilisation politique du langage moral de la reconnaissance : une neutralisation du concept de discrimination ?
This article uses a socio-historical approach to analyze the displacement in the definitions of the concept of discrimination. Based on two case-studies dealing with the process of recognition of same-sex couples and the struggle against AIDS in Switzerland, this article highlights that this displac...
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| Language: | fra |
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Genre, Sexualité et Société
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Genre, Sexualité et Société |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3754 |
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| Summary: | This article uses a socio-historical approach to analyze the displacement in the definitions of the concept of discrimination. Based on two case-studies dealing with the process of recognition of same-sex couples and the struggle against AIDS in Switzerland, this article highlights that this displacement, starting with a legal definition then transformed and conveyed by social science research, had a significant impact: once in the hands of lawmakers, the concept of discrimination indirectly undercuts the equality principles in legal reforms concerning the same-sex couples institutionalization. The way Swiss lawmakers understand the concept of discrimination relies on the register of recognition, which doesn’t hold the legal force of the concept of discrimination. |
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| ISSN: | 2104-3736 |