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Racism and misrecognition.

Yarong Xie¹, Steve Kirkwood¹, Eric Laurier¹

¹The University of Edinburgh, UK.

The British Journal of Social Psychology

|July 16, 2021

Summary

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Misrecognition, or disrespecting someone's identity, is a form of racism. This study shows how claims of racism are interactionally constructed in public spaces, highlighting the importance of recognition for social justice.

Keywords:

Racism conversation analysis discursive psychology misrecognition recognition

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Area of Science:

Social Psychology
Discourse Analysis
Sociology

Background:

Recognition and misrecognition are key concepts in social justice theory.
Racism can be understood as a specific form of misrecognition.
Limited research explores misrecognition within the discursive psychological study of racism.

Purpose of the Study:

To address the gap in research on misrecognition and racism.
To examine reports of racial encounters in public spaces using discursive psychology and conversation analysis.
To enhance theoretical understandings of misrecognition and its construction in social interactions.

Main Methods:

Discursive psychology and conversation analysis were employed.
Analysis focused on reports of racial encounters in public spaces.
Examined how misrecognition of nationality is invoked in these encounters.

Main Results:

Instances of misrecognition are judged as racism through specific linguistic practices.
These practices involve the exclusion of individuals from claimed national category membership.
Participants sensitively manage the delicate nature of alleging racism in reported encounters.

Conclusions:

Misrecognition is interactionally constructed, particularly concerning nationality.
The study demonstrates the value of recognition and misrecognition concepts for studying racism.
Findings enhance theoretical understandings of how racism is discursively produced and perceived.