Nancy Frazer's Theory | Essay

Blog 2
Nancy Frazer's theory of the tripartite model is one of the most popular theories that must
be considered while speaking about social injustice or social evils. Racial discrimination is one
of the major social disparities taking place in Australia. There is huge discrimination done
against the non-indigenous and the indigenous people. There is always unfair treatment done
towards the Aboriginals in all the sectors. This is because Frazer emphasizes on the
amalgamation of redistribution, recognition, and representation to work together for being able to
remove social discrimination. Frazer saw social justice as rearrangement so that there is equal
participation of all the people from different social and racial backgrounds. She uses the term
participatory parity. The three important words, redistribution, recognition and representation
are the three most important aspects of this principle. Frazer thinks that these three aspects must
be present to ensure that social justice is available to all people. Nancy Frazer has called for the
addition of a third aspect that is representation in her model of justice. This is because, since the
colonization of Australia, representation and misrepresentation have kept on oppressing the
Indigenous people like the Aboriginals. Non-indigenous people and Indigenous people have not
got equal representation in society because there were economic, cultural and political barriers.
This is because though many protective measures are being developed the marginalized
people in Australia like the Aboriginals are not being entitled to those rights and privileges. It is
for this reason that there is the need for rechecking and also redistributing these laws and these
rules so that people are being able to get an equal amount of rights and opportunities to lead their
lives in a very peaceful way (McPherson 2019).

This is also evident in the case of the rising issue of injustice towards Aboriginals in
Australia. However, some laws and acts try to safeguard the overall interest of people belong
from the indigenous groups like Aboriginals, so that they do not have to suffer from any kind of
injustice but still there is huge discrimination that is still carried on. This is because the rights
and facilities are often entitled only to individuals who belong from the upper classes of society
like the Anglo people or the white skin people of Australia are the ones who get the best
privileges in comparison to the ones who belong to the lower sections of the society or the
inferior sections of the society as well. Indigenous Australians are subjected to huge
discrimination and improper cruel treatment based on their ethnicity (Rosol, Blue and Fast
2019). This is also evident from the removal of children from Aboriginal families. This was
mainly done so that these children could be trained in the modern and the so-called accepted
social standards of living (Sharam 2017). This is an example of a patriarchal authority that does
not provide equal rights and responsibilities to the Indigenous people in Australia.
In other words, these children were taken away not only from their families but also
were uprooted from their tradition, culture and their religion as well. There is huge
discrimination among the native white skin Australians and also the aboriginals in terms of
employment and other such opportunities. It is because of this reason that there is an improper
distribution of the rights to education, employment and opportunity among people based on their
social classes and their ethnicity. The Indigenous people in Australia have been suffering from
misrecognition, maldistribution, and misrepresentation in all areas of social life. It is the
responsibility of the social workers or the community workers to raise their voice against this
social injustice and ensure that Indigenous Australians are getting equal rights and
representations in society.