L’utilisation politique du langage moral de la reconnaissance : une neutralisation du concept de discrimination ?

• Main Author: Marta Roca i Escoda
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Genre, Sexualité et Société 2016-06-01
• Series: Genre, Sexualité et Société
• Subjects: discriminations; recognition; same-sex couples; HIV/AIDS; Switzerland; gender
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/gss/3754

This article uses a socio-historical approach to analyze the displacement in the definitions of the concept of discrimination. Based on two case-studies dealing with the process of recognition of same-sex couples and the struggle against AIDS in Switzerland, this article highlights that this displacement, starting with a legal definition then transformed and conveyed by social science research, had a significant impact: once in the hands of lawmakers, the concept of discrimination indirectly undercuts the equality principles in legal reforms concerning the same-sex couples institutionalization. The way Swiss lawmakers understand the concept of discrimination relies on the register of recognition, which doesn’t hold the legal force of the concept of discrimination.