{"id":11573,"date":"2024-04-21T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T14:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/2024-knox-lecture-elizabeth-anderson-university-of-michigan\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:23:22","slug":"2024-knox-lecture-elizabeth-anderson-university-of-michigan","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/2024-knox-lecture-elizabeth-anderson-university-of-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Knox Lecture &#8211; Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><u>Title:<\/u>\u00a0&#8220;Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><u>Abstract<\/u>:\u00a0Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of &#8220;categorical inequality.&#8221; In this framework, entire social groups enjoy superior power, social esteem, and wealth over other groups: aristocrats over commoners, men over women, blacks over whites in the U.S., Brahmins over Dalits in India, etc. Theorists of &#8220;intersectionality&#8221; challenge such simple models by noting that everyone has multiple social identities that have non-additive interactions. This fact upsets attempts to reduce all inequalities to a linear system of social stratification. I shall argue that, once we incorporate Rousseau&#8217;s argument that the desire for superior esteem drives the creation of social hierarchy, even intersectional theories fail to capture the myriad ways social inequality resolves into much finer-grained social inequalities. I discuss some of the normative implications of these facts. Among these are that &#8220;privilege&#8221; frames (e.g., &#8220;white privilege&#8221;) are not just inaccurate and politically self-defeating, but grant far too much credence to the inegalitarian ideologies deployed to rationalize the very hierarchies that privilege frames aim to discredit. Rousseau had a better idea: to persuade people that even the purported winners of hierarchical systems ultimately become losers, because such systems have no internal brakes against ever-rising inequality.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk\/files\/2023\/07\/Knox-2024-Poster-New_page-00011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-6229 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk\/files\/2023\/07\/Knox-2024-Poster-New_page-00011-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"588\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:\u00a0&#8220;Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem&#8221; Abstract:\u00a0Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of &#8220;categorical inequality.&#8221; In this framework, entire social groups enjoy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11767,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[31],"class_list":["post-11573","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-knox-lecture","cat_knox-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11756,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11573\/revisions\/11756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}