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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Genre, Sexualité et Société
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-222141fb608b470282472aec433214ab2025-01-09T13:06:26ZfraGenre, Sexualité et SociétéGenre, Sexualité et Société2104-37362016-06-011510.4000/gss.3754L’utilisation politique du langage moral de la reconnaissance : une neutralisation du concept de discrimination ?Marta Roca i EscodaThis 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.https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3754discriminationsSwitzerlandHIV/AIDSrecognitionsame-sex couples |
| spellingShingle | Marta Roca i Escoda L’utilisation politique du langage moral de la reconnaissance : une neutralisation du concept de discrimination ? Genre, Sexualité et Société discriminations Switzerland HIV/AIDS recognition same-sex couples |
| title | L’utilisation politique du langage moral de la reconnaissance : une neutralisation du concept de discrimination ? |
| title_full | L’utilisation politique du langage moral de la reconnaissance : une neutralisation du concept de discrimination ? |
| title_fullStr | L’utilisation politique du langage moral de la reconnaissance : une neutralisation du concept de discrimination ? |
| title_full_unstemmed | L’utilisation politique du langage moral de la reconnaissance : une neutralisation du concept de discrimination ? |
| title_short | L’utilisation politique du langage moral de la reconnaissance : une neutralisation du concept de discrimination ? |
| title_sort | l utilisation politique du langage moral de la reconnaissance une neutralisation du concept de discrimination |
| topic | discriminations Switzerland HIV/AIDS recognition same-sex couples |
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