Identity, community, and justice: locating Amartya Sen's work on identity

Mozaffar Qizilbash

doi:10.1177/1470594X09105386

Identity, community, and justice: locating Amartya Sen's work on identity

Mozaffar Qizilbash

Politics, Economics and Philosophy

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Abstract

Amartya Sen's recent works on identity have emerged at the same time as a much wider and growing literature on the topic across the disciplines of politics, philosophy, and economics. This article outlines some of Sen's claims and attempts a partial elucidation of their relationship to some strands in the relevant literatures on identity, community, and justice. It thereby frames Sen's works in such a way as to facilitate comparisons with other views on identity and multiculturalism, community, justice, and recognition which feature in this volume and the relevant literatures. Framing Sen's work in this way also helps to clarify Sen's position in relation to those of Bhikhu Parekh and certain communitarian thinkers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	251-266
Number of pages	16
Journal	Politics philosophy & economics
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X09105386
Publication status	Published - Aug 2009

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Keywords

identity
multiculturalism
justice
communitarianism
Sen
COMMITMENT
ECONOMICS

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Identity, community, and justice: locating Amartya Sen's work on identity

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