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Freedom of speech versus racial justice: Homeplace theory, antiparallelism, and becoming-minor

Freedom of speech versus racial justice: Homeplace theory, antiparallelism, and becoming-minor Abstract This article examines the reasons that Whiteness and social justice have adopted conceptions of democracy and freedom that seem to conflict and yet do not directly conflict. The argument starts by framing a problem of democracy and freedom as property issued to White people within a dominant majoritarian semiotic system. By using critical race theory and linguistic philosophy, we describe how conflict suppression maintains a homeplace, a social justice semiotic subsystem that suppresses conflict with Whiteness, thereby protecting both the homeplace and Whiteness simultaneously. We argue that public administration theory offers unique opportunities to promote and enrich these sites of resistance to reterritorialize democracy and freedom in new and inclusive ways. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Administrative Theory & Praxis Taylor & Francis

Freedom of speech versus racial justice: Homeplace theory, antiparallelism, and becoming-minor

Heckler, Nuri; Rouse, Ryan
Administrative Theory & Praxis , Volume 43 (3): 20 – Jul 3, 2021
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Freedom of speech versus racial justice: Homeplace theory, antiparallelism, and becoming-minor

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Abstract This article examines the reasons that Whiteness and social justice have adopted conceptions of democracy and freedom that seem to conflict and yet do not directly conflict. The argument starts by framing a problem of democracy and freedom as property issued to White people within a dominant majoritarian semiotic system. By using critical race theory and linguistic philosophy, we describe how conflict suppression maintains a homeplace, a social justice semiotic subsystem that...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2020 Public Administration Theory Network
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1949-0461
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1084-1806
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10.1080/10841806.2020.1782127
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Abstract

Abstract This article examines the reasons that Whiteness and social justice have adopted conceptions of democracy and freedom that seem to conflict and yet do not directly conflict. The argument starts by framing a problem of democracy and freedom as property issued to White people within a dominant majoritarian semiotic system. By using critical race theory and linguistic philosophy, we describe how conflict suppression maintains a homeplace, a social justice semiotic subsystem that suppresses conflict with Whiteness, thereby protecting both the homeplace and Whiteness simultaneously. We argue that public administration theory offers unique opportunities to promote and enrich these sites of resistance to reterritorialize democracy and freedom in new and inclusive ways.

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Administrative Theory & Praxis – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jul 3, 2021

Keywords: Becoming-minor; homeplace theory; semiotics; social justice; Whiteness

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