Engineering equality : an essay on European anti-discrimination law

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Engineering equality : an essay on European anti-discrimination law

Alexander Somek

Oxford University Press, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In an age of widespread cutbacks on social spending, the prospects of social policy generally appear to be grim. If noticeable progress has been recently made in the European Union, then it is in regard to rooting out discrimination. Indeed, anti-discrimination law and policy appears to be the one sphere of social policy whose success is causally connected to the European Union. But how successful can anti-discrimination law be? This book uses legal analysis in order to expose the intrinsic shortcomings of common approaches. Anti-discrimination law fails to provide adequate legal guidance and therefore invites constant supplementation by pedagogical projects of social engineering. This book offers a genuinely leftist critique on anti-discrimination law, and concludes with a discussion of alternative models of solidarity in the Union.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. Social policy: From domestication to disarmament
  • 2. From legislation to discourse and mobilization
  • 3. Neoliberalism and morality
  • 4. Direct discrimination
  • 5. Normative twist and antinomy
  • 6. Consequences of normative deficiency
  • 7. Moral re-engineering: The neoliberal predicament
  • 8. Beyond inclusion
  • Bibliography

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  • NCID
    BB08854157
  • ISBN
    • 9780199693375
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 217 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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