Grassroots and Academia Fighting Marginalisation Grassroots organisations and researchers collaborate to promote health and social inclusion and to facilitate multilevel change and human development University of Bergen, Norway January 10-12

MULTICULTURAL VENUES IN HEALTH AND EDUCATION Applying local cultural perspectives on global social challenges Thematic research group: Faculty of Psychology

LOVE, RIGHTS AND SOLIDARITY The struggle for Recognition A theoretical and applied framework Gro Th. Lie Research Centre for Health Promotion/Dept of Education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Psychology, UoB

A person can not develop a personal identity without social recognition. The need for recognition is fundamental: to individual development, to development of a society of civil and legal rights for the development of legal consciousness and understanding of legal rights the need for recognition is essential for the development societies of solidarity.

Three patterns of intersubjective recognition: LOVE, RIGHTS and SOLIDARITY. These patterns of recognition are essential for the development of : self-confidence (trust in one self, trust in ones own agency) respect/self-respect (a person who is worthy of the same kinds of rights as other persons within the legal society) self-esteem (a person who regard herself as worthy in a social context and is given a social status in a society of shared community values).

1) The sphere of intimacy (privacy) the way we know it from close families and bonds of deep friendships 2) The sphere of a legal and rights regulated society 3) The sphere of solidarity that includes community of work, of cultural and political values, - community of shared social (and institutional) values.

This release into independence has to be supported by an affective confidence in the continuity of shared concern. … Because this experience must be mutual in love relationships, recognition is here characterised by a double process, in which the other is released and, at the same time, emotionally tied to the loving subject. Thus speaking of recognition as a constitutive element of love, what is meant is an affirmation that is guided – indeed, supported – by care (Honneth, 1993, p.170).

Love is basic and a condition for any other and later forms of inter subjective relations or mutual relationships with others

Honneth uses the concept love widely as a phenomenon that involves giving and getting emotional attention and recognition.

The violation of the body involves psychological death The denial of rights involves social death The denigration of ways of life involves injuries, scarification, being marked, being deprived of esteem (Honneth, 1992; 1993).

Three patterns of intersubjective recognition: LOVE, RIGHTS and SOLIDARITY. These patterns of recognition are essential for the development of : self-confidence (trust in one self, trust in ones own agency) respect/self-respect (a person who is worthy of the same kinds of rights as other persons within the legal society) self-esteem (a person who regard herself as worthy in a social context and is given a social status in a society of shared community values).

LOVE, RIGHTS AND SOLIDARITY The struggle for Recognition A theoretical and applied framework Gro Th. Lie Research Centre for Health Promotion/Dept of Education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Psychology, UoB