In his academic research in social and political philosophy, Douglas uses a phenomenological approach to better understand social injustices and people’s responses to them. He applies recognition theory as the key to understanding personhood, identity, injustice, social conflict, and social justice. His most recent book on recognition theory is Rethinking Misrecognition and Struggles for Recognition: Critical Theory Beyond Honneth (2020). Previous publications include “Uncovering Neglected Emerging Lived Religious Pluralisms” (in Emergent Religious Pluralisms [Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges], 2019), “What Hegel Mis…

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