Social exclusion and adverse incorporation. Towards a critique of a globalizing world

Abstract

The aim of this article is to criticize the discourse of social exclusion. I explain some key features of our globalizing world and why this discourse is profoundly inadequate to face them. It distracts attention from fundamental characteristics of our contemporary world, so that it can be used to obscure relationships at the root of exploitation, domination or subordination. Against this discourse, I propose the concept of adverse incorporation to avoid these dangers.