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Ishkanian, Armine, and Anita Peña Saavedra. "The politics and practices of intersectional prefiguration in social movements: The case of Sisters Uncut." Sociological Review 67, no. 5 (January 22, 2019): 985–1001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026118822974.
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Considering contemporary movements as sites of struggle between attempts at inclusiveness and enduring tendencies to exclude and reproduce power hierarchies, this article examines how movement actors confront and tackle inequalities within their organisational spaces. Drawing on an in-depth study, which relied on Participatory Action Research methods, of the intersectional feminist anti-austerity group Sisters Uncut, the article analyses how actors collectively define and translate intersectionality into practice and the challenges they face in enacting this form of politics, which the authors call intersectional prefiguration. The authors consider intersectional prefiguration as a form of radical democratic politics which acknowledges relations of domination and seeks to transform them within both movements and society. The article discusses how enacting intersectional prefiguration is predicated on actors developing a collective identity, embracing a commitment to organise intersectionally, and adopting specific methodologies through which to do so. The findings have relevance to scholars of social movements and intersectionality and can help advance our understandings of the ways in which movements, prefigurative and otherwise, drive social change and transformative politics and the challenges they face in this process.
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Naples, Nancy A. "Teaching Intersectionality Intersectionally." International Feminist Journal of Politics 11, no. 4 (December 2009): 566–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616740903237558.
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English, Ashley. "She Who Shall Not Be Named: The Women That Women's Organizations Do (and Do Not) Represent in the Rulemaking Process." Politics & Gender 15, no. 03 (October 16, 2018): 572–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x18000375.
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AbstractThough the concept of intersectionality has been in circulation for nearly 30 years and women's organizations have long been criticized for failing to prioritize the concerns of women of color, poor women, and LGBTQ women, more research is needed to determine precisely why women's organizations do and do not discuss those intersectional identities during policy debates. This study analyzes 1,021 comments that women's organizations submitted to rulemakers to test a series of hypotheses about how women's organizations’ references to women's intersectional identities increase or decrease depending on the organization's primary constituency and ideology, the proposed rule's target population, and other features of the policy-making context. Using automated text analysis and a series of models, it shows that women's organizations do discuss intersectionally marginalized women in their comments. However, not all subgroups of women are equally represented during the process. Women's organizations focus on women's sexual orientations and gender identities more than their races, ethnicities, nationalities, or socioeconomic statuses. Intersectionally marginalized women also tend to receive the most attention when commenters are from organizations that are explicitly focused on representing intersectionally marginalized women and when bureaucrats include references to intersectionally marginalized women in their proposed rules.
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Kamasak, Rifat, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Sibel Baykut, and Meltem Yavuz. "Moving from intersectional hostility to intersectional solidarity." Journal of Organizational Change Management 33, no. 3 (June 14, 2019): 456–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-11-2018-0328.
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Purpose Treatment of intersectionality in empirical studies has predominantly engaged with individual categories of difference. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that there is utility in exploring intersectionality at the intersection of individual and institutional levels. As such the authors move beyond the polarised take on intersections as either individual or institutional phenomenon and tackle intersectionality as a relational phenomenon that gains meaning at the encounter of individuals and institutions in context. Therefore, the authors explicate how intersectionality features as forms of solidarity and hostility in work environments. As such the authors posit that not only individuals but also the institutions should change if inclusion is aimed at societal and organisational levels. Design/methodology/approach A thematic analysis on qualitative interview data of a purposive- and snowball-selected sample of 11 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer working adults in Turkey was used. Findings This paper finds evidence to support the existence of a multidimensional model of intersectionality, where conflicting and complementary individual and institutional intersections create four intersectional typologies in the form of intersectional hostility, intersectional struggle, intersectional adjustment and intersectional solidarity. Originality/value The extant literature offers rich insights into individual intersectionality but sheds very little light on institutional intersectionality and its interaction with individual intersectionality. This paper attempts to fill in this gap by investigating intersectional encounters as interactions between the individual and institutional intersections.
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Shaffner, Ellen C., Albert J. Mills, and Jean Helms Mills. "Intersectional history: exploring intersectionality over time." Journal of Management History 25, no. 4 (November 11, 2019): 444–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmh-02-2018-0011.
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PurposeThis paper aims to outline the possibilities of intersectional history as a novel method for management history. Intersectional history combines intersectionality and the study of the past to examine discrimination in organizations over time. This paper explores the need for intersectional work in management history, outlines the vision for intersectional history and provides a brief example analyzing the treatment of Australian Aboriginal people in a historical account of Qantas Airways.Design/methodology/approachThis paper contends that intersectionality is a discursive practice, and it adopts a relational approach to the study of the past to inform the method. This paper focuses on the social construction of identities and the enduring nature of traces of the powerful in organizations over time.FindingsThe example of Qantas Airways demonstrates that intersectional history can be used to interrogate powerful traces of the past to reveal novel insights about marginalized peoples over time.Originality/valueIntersectional history is a specific and reflexive method that allows for the surfacing of identity-based marginalization over time. The paper’s concentration on identity as socially constructed allows a particular focus on notions or representations of the marginalized in traces of the past. These traces may otherwise mask the existence and importance of marginalized groups in organizations’ dominant histories.
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Hearn, Jeff. "On men, organizations and intersectionality." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 33, no. 5 (June 10, 2014): 414–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/edi-07-2013-0051.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect, personally, regarding work, politically and theoretically, on 40 years of involvement in organization studies, profeminism and intersectionality. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses autoethnography. Findings – The paper shows the need for a broad notion of the field and fieldwork, the development of intersectional thinking, the complexity of men's relations to feminism and intersectionality and the need to both name and deconstruct men in the research field. Research limitations/implications – The paper suggests a more explicit naming and deconstruction of men and other intersectional social categories in doing research. Practical implications – The paper suggests a more explicit naming and deconstruction of men and other intersectional social categories in equality practice. Social implications – The paper suggests a more explicit naming and deconstruction of men and other intersectional social categories in social, political and policy interventions. Originality/value – The paper points to recent historical changes in the connections between feminism, gender, profeminism, organizations and intersectionality in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion.
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Wells, Celeste C., Rebecca Gill, and James McDonald. "“Us foreigners”: intersectionality in a scientific organization." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 34, no. 6 (August 17, 2015): 539–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/edi-12-2014-0086.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore intersectionality as accomplished in interaction, and particularly national difference as a component of intersectionality. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use ethnographic, shadowing methods to examine intersectionality in-depth and developed vignettes to illuminate the experience of intersectionality. Findings – National difference mitigated the common assumption in scientific work that tenure and education are the most important markers of acceptance and collegiality. Moreover, national difference was a more prominent driving occupational discourse in scientific work than gender. Research limitations/implications – The data were limited in scope, though the authors see this as a necessity for generating in-depth intersectional data. Implications question the prominence of gender and (domestic) race/gender as “the” driving discourses of difference in much scholarship and offer a new view into how organizing around identity happens. Specifically, the authors develop “intersectional pairs” to understand the paradoxes of intersectionality, and as comprising a larger, woven experience of “intersectional netting.” Social implications – This research draws critical attention to how assumptions regarding national difference shape workplace experiences, in an era of intensified global migration and immigration debates. Originality/value – The study foregrounds the negotiation of national difference in US workplaces, and focusses on how organization around said difference happens interactively in communication.
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Roy, Amanda L. "Intersectional Ecologies: Positioning Intersectionality in Settings-Level Research." New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 2018, no. 161 (July 3, 2018): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cad.20248.
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De Proost, Michiel. "Integrating intersectionality into autonomy: Reflections on feminist bioethics and egg freezing." DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies 7, no. 2 (January 21, 2021): 21–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/digest.v7i2.16532.
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The field of bioethics struggles with the complexity of diversity and power differences. ‘Intersectionality in Clinical Medicine: The Need for a Conceptual Framework’ (Wilson et al., 2019) and its accompanying commentaries, though inventive and thought-provoking, overlook key principles of biomedical ethics. In this paper, I reflect on the debate and consider how an intersectional approach could inform normative theorizing. Traditional principlist reasoning leads to serious problems when we are trying to deal with the complexities of intersectionality, and this is especially true if we look at the principle of autonomy. I develop the idea that intersectionality is more in line with feminist inquiry in bioethics that attempts to reconfigure autonomy. However, feminist critiques of autonomy often remain less than thoroughly engaged with intersectionality. The case of social egg freezing is used to further support this claim. By foregrounding an intersectional approach to the existing relational autonomy claims in this debate, the complicated relational and justice concerns of reproduction are better brought into focus.
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Garry, Ann. "Intersectionality, Metaphors, and the Multiplicity of Gender." Hypatia 26, no. 4 (2011): 826–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01194.x.
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Although intersectional analyses of gender have been widely adopted by feminist theorists in many disciplines, controversy remains over their character, limitations, and implications. I support intersectionality, cautioning against asking too much of it. It provides standards for the uses of methods or frameworks rather than theories of power, oppression, agency, or identity. I want feminist philosophers to incorporate intersectional analyses more fully into our work so that our theories can, in fact, have the pluralistic and inclusive character to which we give lip service. To this end, I advocate an intersectional family resemblance strategy that does not create philosophical problems for feminists. I test my approach against María Lugones's argument in “Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System” (Lugones 2007) to determine, in particular, whether we can successfully resist a move to create multiple genders for women. If we can successfully resist this move, then we can answer the objection that intersectionality fragments women both theoretically and politically. I also argue that my approach avoids Lugones's critique of forms of intersectionality that fall within “the logic of purity.”
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Corlett, Sandra, and Sharon Mavin. "Intersectionality, identity and identity work." Gender in Management: An International Journal 29, no. 5 (July 1, 2014): 258–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-12-2013-0138.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Special Issue developed from a joint research seminar of the Gender in Management and Identity Special Interest Groups of the British Academy of Management, entitled “Exploring the Intersectionality of Gender and Identity”. It also presents an introductory literature review of intersectionality for gender in management and identity/identity work researchers. The authors highlight the similarities and differences of intersectionality and identity approaches and introduce critiques of intersectional research. They then introduce the three papers in this Special Issue. Design/methodology/approach – The authors review the intersectionality literature within and outside management and organisation studies and focus their attention on three intersectionality Special Issues (Sex Roles, 2008, 2013 and the European Journal of Women’s Studies, 2006). Findings – The authors outline the ongoing debates relating to intersectionality research, including a framework and/or theory for identity/identity work, and explore the shared tenets of theories of intersectionality and identity. They highlight critiques of intersectionality research in practice and consider areas for future research for gender in management and identity researchers. Research limitations/implications – The authors provide an architecture for researchers to explore intersectionality and to consider issues before embarking on intersectional research. They also highlight areas for future research, including social-identities of disability, class and religion. Originality/value – Gender in Management: An International Journal invited this Special Issue to make a significant contribution to an under-researched area by reviewing the shared and different languages and importantly the shared key tenets, of intersectionality, gender, identity and identity work from a multidisciplinary perspective.
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Maučec, Gregor. "The International Criminal Court and the Issue of Intersectionality—A Conceptual and Legal Framework for Analysis." International Criminal Law Review 21, no. 1 (February 5, 2021): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718123-bja10043.
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Abstract A survey of relevant case law of the International Criminal Court (icc or Court) reveals inconsistencies, as well as conceptual flaws and limitations in the Court’s mainly uni-sectional approach to mass atrocities that involve multiple and intersecting forms discrimination, in particular with regard to the cornerstones of such cases—the identification of the protected groups and their members. This has resulted in discrepancies and low levels of legal protection against intersectional targeting. Such a cautious, selective and inconsistent approach of the icc to this issue is unsurprising given that the application of intersectionality in practice is a radical and transformative project. Espousing a more consistent and intersectional approach of the icc in considering mass atrocities against different protected groups and their members, this article discusses the Court’s legal framework and major conceptual and statutory concerns surrounding the icc prosecutor’s and judges’ enhanced engagement—through more progressive law interpretation—with the phenomena of intersectionality and key concepts related to it. The main purpose of this contribution is thus two-fold: (1) to demonstrate and explain why, in practice, the focus on intersectional dimensions of such situations and cases in their selection, prosecution and adjudication does not interfere with strict adherence to the principle of legality underlying the Rome Statute, and (2) to analyse the legal grounds and avenues for the Court to implement intersectionality when dealing with atrocities involving intersectional discrimination. It is ultimately suggested that Article 21(3) of the Rome Statute offers a proper and solid legal basis for interpreting and applying pertinent international criminal law in light of intersectionality.
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Labelle, Alexie. "Bringing epistemology into intersectional methodology." European Journal of Politics and Gender 3, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 409–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/251510819x15743520497579.
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Since its academic introduction in the late 1980s, the concept of intersectionality has made a staple contribution to feminist scholarship. However, its institutionalised popularity and apparent depoliticisation have led scholars to raise two major concerns: the lack of a clearly defined intersectional methodology; and the erasure of black women scholars in intersectionality scholarship, particularly in the discipline of political science. While the latter rightly addresses epistemology and the politics of knowledge production, the former has lacked a thorough discussion on the ways in which epistemology impacts intersectional methodology, focusing instead on methods and method choice. Drawing on my own experience studying lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and queer people of colour activism in Canada, I argue that we need to bring epistemology into intersectional methodology. Hence, this article demonstrates how reflecting on one’s positionality, one’s embodiment of privileges and one’s ethical responsibilities informs the ways in which researchers operationalise intersectional projects, thereby shaping methodology.
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Sudenkaarne, Tiia. "Considering Unicorns." SQS – Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran lehti 12, no. 1-2 (May 25, 2018): 35–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.23980/sqs.70785.
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This article discusses queer bioethics, a critical stance for dismantling cis- and heteronormativity in bioethics, together with intersectionality, the investigation of and potential for social justice-oriented change. I discuss the difficulties of navigating plurality with solidarity and ethical sobriety that I call the problems of identity, essentialism and relativism in intersectionality theory. I then proceed to ponder how queer bioethics relates to intersectionality, and close by offering some remarks for further research.
Certain intersectional approaches share key queer bioethical imperatives in exposing how seemingly neutral antidiscrimination discourses rely on bias and privilege. Both powerfully demonstrate how ostensibly objective methodologies are often inadequate for addressing socially sanctioned bias or for unpacking oppressive habits of the mind. Intersectionality interrupts narrative norms and disrupts easy binaries, such as male/female or homo/hetero. Because it is practice-oriented and has a social justice mission, intersectionality approaches analysis and advocacy as necessarily linked, which corresponds to queer bioethics arising from LGBTQI activism. However, establishing intersectional queer bioethics requires further investigation into cases of race, sexual and gender diversity with queer bioethics as the background moral theory, formulation of which I suggest should be inspired by feminist metaphysical advances.
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Clarke, Averil Y., and Leslie McCall. "INTERSECTIONALITY AND SOCIAL EXPLANATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 10, no. 2 (2013): 349–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x13000325.
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AbstractTo the extent that intersectionality is becoming a common term in mainstream social science, it is as a methodological justification to separate out different racial, ethnic, gender, class, and other social groups for empirical analysis. One might call this the “intersectionality hypothesis,” and in its best incarnation, it is about getting the facts right and finding the differences that matter. But an intersectional analysis in the social sciences often involves more than this. An intersectional approach also leads to potentially different interpretations of the same facts, or what we term a different social explanation. It is not only the intersection of categories that defines an intersectional project, then, but the theoretical framing that informs the analysis and interpretation of the subject under study. This framing often leads to an analysis of multiple and even conflicting social dynamics that enable certain kinds of social understanding that are otherwise invisible when scholars focus on a single set of social dynamics. Because the social theoretical aspects of research on intersectionality are rarely discussed, relative to the more methodological and ontological aspects of intersectionality, this is our main subject matter in this article. We focus on the process of developing social explanations rooted in the intersection of multiple social dynamics in several examples from our own research and across a variety of topics in social science research.
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Moradi, Bonnie, Mike C. Parent, Alexandra S. Weis, Staci Ouch, and Kendal L. Broad. "Mapping the Travels of Intersectionality Scholarship: A Citation Network Analysis." Psychology of Women Quarterly 44, no. 2 (February 25, 2020): 151–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684320902408.
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In this study, we conducted a citation network analysis of intersectionality scholarship. We aimed to elucidate content domains in this scholarship’s citation network. In addition, we explored a citation-based genealogy of this scholarship, attending to the representation of women of color identified in prior critical analyses of intersectionality scholarship as key but under-acknowledged contributors to intersectional thought and praxis. We used CitNetExplorer to analyze a network of 17,332 records and 60,132 citation links. The analysis yielded 17 clusters, with the five largest clusters focusing on (1) conceptualizing intersectionality theory, methodology, and analysis; (2) psychology, identity stigma, and multiple minority statuses; (3) sociology of gender inequality, labor markets, and organizations; (4) political science, political systems and policy, including in the European context; and (5) violence against women, gender and health, and health equity. Although some of the key women of color contributors to intersectional thought were among the most cited authors in the network, others were cited infrequently or not at all across the network and clusters. Taken together, the analyses revealed substantial and ongoing engagement with efforts to define and refine intersectionality as epistemology and methodology. However, the analyses pointed to the need for scholars to reengage with, cite, and follow the examples of the women of color who contributed to intersectional thought by actually doing intersectional praxis that directly advances social justice aims. Some of the smaller clusters in the citation network reflected content domains, such as environmental justice and community planning, ripe for such activist-scholar work. Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0361684320902408
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Gambino, Elena. "“A More Thorough Resistance”? Coalition, Critique, and the Intersectional Promise of Queer Theory." Political Theory 48, no. 2 (June 4, 2019): 218–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591719853642.
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Queer theorists have long staked their politics in an engagement with intersectionality. Yet intersectional scholars have been some of queer theory’s most vocal critics, decrying its failure to adequately engage persistent inequalities. I approach this seeming paradox in three parts. First, I situate intersectionality within the field of critical theory, arguing that it shares critical theory’s view of power. Both traditions, I argue, understand power to generate the very marginalized figures that it subordinates. Second, while intersectional and queer theories share this critical insight, the two frameworks offer fundamentally different understandings of what constitutes a democratic politics of redress. Where intersectional theorists promote coalition-building between differently marginalized subjects, queer theorists tend to figure sexually marginalized subjects as exemplary democratic agents. Finally, I argue that this slippage in conceptions of democracy has had negative consequences for critical theory and highlights the difficult but essential role of coalition as a political resource.
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Shaffner, Ellen, and Jean Helms Mills. "Intersectional History: Exploring the Possibilities of Intersectionality over Time." Academy of Management Proceedings 2018, no. 1 (August 2018): 12506. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2018.12506abstract.
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Anthias, Floya. "Intersectional what? Social divisions, intersectionality and levels of analysis." Ethnicities 13, no. 1 (October 31, 2012): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796812463547.
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Christian, Aymar Jean, Faithe Day, Mark Díaz, and Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin. "Platforming Intersectionality: Networked Solidarity and the Limits of Corporate Social Media." Social Media + Society 6, no. 3 (July 2020): 205630512093330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120933301.
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How do historically marginalized narratives spread on social media platforms? Developing research in collaboration with intersectional artists and community, or what we call “platforming intersectionality,” can reveal the promise and limitations of social media for bridging disparate, segregated communities, or “networked solidarity.” Using case studies of indie TV series about historically marginalized communities, we show that intersectionality can spread on corporate social media platforms, but the causes are largely visible outside of platforms, both online and offline. Basic conditions for spreading intersectional narratives may be met when the language used to describe them are simply communicated in ways algorithms and users can quickly understand. However, community members, including artists and publishers who produce for specific communities online and offline, serve as critical, under-appreciated nodes platforms leverage to spread intersectionality. We argue that reconceptualizing platforms as community-based media provides a better framework for understanding the power and limits of social media.
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Dennissen, Marjolein, Yvonne Benschop, and Marieke van den Brink. "Rethinking Diversity Management: An Intersectional Analysis of Diversity Networks." Organization Studies 41, no. 2 (October 4, 2018): 219–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840618800103.
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The aim of this paper has been to further our knowledge on diversity management practices by applying an intersectionality lens to single category diversity networks. Diversity networks are in-company networks intending to inform and support employees with similar social identities. Their focus on single identity categories is exemplary of current diversity management practices. We shed light on the strategies of network members to deal with their multiple identities vis-a-vis their network membership (structural intersectionality) and on the processes that hamper collaboration and coalition building between diversity networks (political intersectionality). Our intersectional analysis shows how the single category structure of diversity networks marginalizes members with multiple disadvantaged identities and reveals how collaborations between diversity networks are hindered by processes of preserving privilege rather than interrogating it. We contribute to the literature on diversity management practices by highlighting how dynamic processes of privilege and disadvantage play a role in sustaining intersectional inequalities in organizations.
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Christian, Michelle, and Assumpta Namaganda. "Transnational intersectionality and domestic work: The production of Ugandan intersectional racialized and gendered domestic worker regimes." International Sociology 33, no. 3 (March 21, 2018): 315–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0268580918764059.
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Domestic work has evolved and adapted in the global South in distinctive racialized and gendered forms as a result of neoliberal economic restructuring. With the case of Uganda, this article applies a transnational intersectionality framework to neoliberal economic restructuring to identify how domestic worker regimes are produced. A transnational intersectionality approach spotlights the translocation of diverse Ugandan domestic workers embedded within the structural forces of economic organization, reproductive labor, state policies, and geography. Drawing from extensive fieldwork from three regions of Uganda, the study’s two main findings document: (1) the production of an intersectional racialized domestic worker regime as a consequence of the Ugandan aid state; and (2) the production of an intersectional gendered domestic worker regime supported by the weakening and underfunding of social development policies in the Ugandan national budget. These regimes show how race, gender, and regional demarcations of domestic work intersect in distinct forms connected to restructuring. A transnational intersectionality approach exposes the diversity of patterns in reproductive labor in Uganda.
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Matsuzaka, Sara, Kimberly D. Hudson, and Abigail M. Ross. "Operationalizing Intersectionality in Social Work Research: Approaches and Limitations." Social Work Research 45, no. 3 (August 21, 2021): 155–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/swr/svab010.
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Abstract Despite intersectionality’s relevance to social work, scholars have raised concerns that its misguided applications place it “in danger of being co-opted, depoliticized, and diluted.” This scoping review examined the use of intersectionality in empirical social work research, specific to the extent, contexts, and degree of responsibility with which it has been applied. Using the search term convention [“social work” OR “social services”] AND [“intersectional” OR “intersectionality”], 22 databases were searched for peer-reviewed research published between 2009 and 2019, yielding 153 articles. The 33 studies meeting inclusion criteria were examined according to two frameworks: (1) typologies for intersectional conceptual approach and (2) intersectionality responsible use guidelines (RUG). Most studies used an intracategorical approach (n = 24), while fewer used an intercategorical (n = 7) or a mixed intra- and intercategorical approach (n = 2). On average, studies met approximately half of the RUG. Studies most frequently (n = 29) aligned with the guideline “Recommend ways to promote positive social transformation and justice through research, teaching, and practice.” Studies least frequently (n = 3) conformed to the guideline “Credits Black feminist activist roots of intersectionality.” Responsible stewardship is recommended to address power in knowledge production, researcher positionalities, and social justice action.
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Ostrowska, Ania. "“I felt more difficulty because of my class than I have because of my gender”." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 20 (January 27, 2021): 135–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.10.
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Through the exploration of gender’s intersections with age, social class and race/ethnicity, this article introduces an intersectional lens to studies of female workers in the British creative and cultural industries (CCI). It presents intersectional analysis of data gathered in twenty-six qualitative interviews with contemporary British women documentarians who talk about their early career aspirations and perceived barriers to entry to the industry. Intersectionality, introduced to critical theory by African American scholars, holds that multiple axes of oppression mutually constitute different social positions and identities. The intersectional approach discussed in this article produces a nuanced picture of the small group of respondents, foregrounding a complex interplay between gender, race and ethnicity, class and region and thus demonstrating the limitations of the category “woman filmmaker” for researching professional disadvantage. However, rather than seeing their experiences as intersectional, the respondents tend to focus on one most salient social marker. Congruously with a large body of literature on systemic inequalities in British CCI, social class is the single most important factor shaping the beginnings of the respondents’ careers. By bridging the gap between intersectionality as a theory and research practice, this article seeks to make a contribution to the broader debate about the employment of intersectional approaches in media studies.
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O’Connell, Karen. "Can Law Address Intersectional Sexual Harassment? The Case of Claimants with Personality Disorders." Laws 8, no. 4 (December 5, 2019): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/laws8040034.
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Sexual harassment across multiple grounds, including race, disability, sexuality and age, remains an entrenched problem that is poorly dealt with in law. Prevalence rates for intersectional sexual harassment are higher for certain groups, while legal redress is low. This paper examines case law on sexual harassment in Australia where there are intersectional factors and asks whether the “intersectionality” section inserted into the federal Sex Discrimination Act in 2011 has impacted legal practice and decision-making. In particular, it considers the situation of sexual harassment claimants with behavioural and personality traits that are considered “disordered” and the specifically gendered disability stereotypes that shape their treatment in law. Recent cases in Australia dealing with the sexual harassment of people with personality disorders show that intersectionality provisions of sexual harassment laws may in fact be used to undermine a legal claim by a person with disability rather than strengthen it. This article argues that an intersectional legal feminist perspective on harassment is needed for the law to work.
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McCormick-Huhn, Kaitlin, Leah R. Warner, Isis H. Settles, and Stephanie A. Shields. "What If Psychology Took Intersectionality Seriously? Changing How Psychologists Think About Participants." Psychology of Women Quarterly 43, no. 4 (August 12, 2019): 445–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684319866430.
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Using intersectionality to change how psychologists think about the demographic profile of their participants is one readily available change that psychologists across the discipline can implement to improve psychological science. In this article, we aim to provide a guide for psychologists who are not already engaged with feminist practices and/or are unsure of how an intersectional approach to participants applies to their research. We argue that by engaging with four perspective shifts of intersectional thinking: multidimensionality, dynamic construction, structural power, and outcomes of systemic disadvantage and advantage, psychologists can more accurately represent the “person” that psychology, as a discipline, seeks to understand. We suggest changes at the researcher, journal, and grant-making agency levels to support an intersectional reconceptualization of participants. As psychology continues to change, in order to foster reproducible science practices and research with relevance to real-world problems, there is opportunity to promote discipline-level change that would take intersectionality seriously.
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Joy, Eileen. ""You cannot take it with you": Reflections on intersectionality and social work." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 31, no. 1 (April 23, 2019): 42–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol31iss1id560.
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This article presents a brief commentary on intersectionality and social work with a particular focus on Aotearoa, New Zealand. It begins with an examination of the genealogy of intersectionality through an acknowledgement that the concept has a longer lineage than the name. This foray into genealogy underscores the point that meticulous citational practice is a key component of good intersectional practice. Definitional challenges are briefly addressed, and the idea that theory and praxis are intimately connected is explored. Following this intersectionality is discussed in the context of ‘mana wāhine’ and recent developments in intersectionality in Aotearoa New Zealand. Finally, there is a discussion of why intersectionality is needed in social work with examples drawn from reflective practice and child protection in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Hudson, Kimberly D., and Gita R. Mehrotra. "Intersectional Social Work Practice: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of Peer-Reviewed Recommendations." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 102, no. 2 (January 27, 2021): 140–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1044389420964150.
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In the past decade, the use of intersectionality in social work scholarship has grown tremendously. Various applications of intersectionality theorizing have led to new approaches in social work research and, ultimately, have informed implications for practice. In this study, we used critical interpretive synthesis to explore how social work scholars articulate practice implications of an intersectional framework. Seventeen peer-reviewed journal articles that applied intersectionality and included implications for practice were identified. Findings were organized into two domains: (a) implications for practitioners and (b) implications for practice across levels. We discuss the importance of integrating intersectionality theorizing into practice implications in specific and robust ways, and some of the limits of how intersectionality is currently informing practice recommendations within peer-reviewed literature.
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Hernández-Saca, David I., Laurie Gutmann Kahn, and Mercedes A. Cannon. "Intersectionality Dis/ability Research: How Dis/ability Research in Education Engages Intersectionality to Uncover the Multidimensional Construction of Dis/abled Experiences." Review of Research in Education 42, no. 1 (March 2018): 286–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0091732x18762439.
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The purpose of this chapter is to systematically review the research within the field of education that explicitly examined how various social constructions of identity intersect with dis/ability to qualitatively affect young adults’ experiences by asking the following question: What are the key findings in education research focusing on youth and young adults with disabilities who are multiply situated in terms of race, gender, social class, sexual orientation, or other social markers? Our conceptual framework included a sociohistorical approach that culled from intersectionality and disability studies in education that centered on the intersectional lived experiences of youth within K–16 educational contexts. In our research, we found 10 qualifying studies that illuminated how youth create meaning along the lines of their disabilities and their intersections, and we summarized these within the following three themes: (a) navigate intersectional disability discourses, (b) present their dis/ability oppression as intersectional, and (c) engage in their identity meaning making as a form of intersectional discourse. We conclude by situating these findings within the larger body of intersectionality disability studies in education research and provide future implications. “Ain’t nobody gonna get me down!” —Kiesha (Petersen, 2009, p. 434)
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Hopkins, Peter. "Social geography I: Intersectionality." Progress in Human Geography 43, no. 5 (November 26, 2017): 937–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132517743677.
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Intersectionality is an approach to research that focuses upon mutually constitutive forms of social oppression rather than on single axes of difference. Intersectionality is not only about multiple identities but is about relationality, social context, power relations, complexity, social justice and inequalities. This report reflects upon the use of intersectionality in social geography and emphasizes the complex histories of intersectionality that are often overlooked in geography. I argue for a greater embrace of the contribution of black feminists and some of the earliest work in geography taking an intersectional perspective. I also argue for intersectionality to be used ethically and with care in geography, rather than it being deployed in a way that unwittingly reproduces a white, colonialist, racist and masculinist discipline. I explore possible avenues for future research about intersectionality in social geographies including a focus upon residential segregation, transnational migration and embodiment.
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Al-Hamad, Areej. "Toward health equities, social justice, and emancipatory calls for knowledge development in nursing." Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 10, no. 8 (May 17, 2020): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v10n8p66.
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Knowledge development within the nursing discipline requires an exploration of ethical, philosophical, and spiritual contexts to make nursing a unique discipline within a health-care system. Intersectionality theory as a philosophical paradigm has a potential contribution to the nursing discipline and public health. Moreover, intersectionality is inevitably intertwined with various dimensions of knowledge development in nursing where gender and culture are therefore seen as large categories of knowledge construction. Adopting an intersectional approach that encompasses health equity, social justice, and emancipatory perspectives helps the nurse to gain a better understanding of the life contexts and experiences of the members of a marginalized group, which ultimately helps to enhance their health and quality of life. Therefore, it appears axiomatic that an intersectional approach could yield fruitful insights into public health and knowledge development in nursing.
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Singh, R. Sonia, Yash Bhambhani, Matthew D. Skinta, and Susan R. Torres-Harding. "Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations." Perspectives on Psychological Science 16, no. 5 (September 2021): 956–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691621991855.
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Since Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989, researchers of bias have struggled with how to capture the complexity and intricacies of intersectional identities and microaggressions experienced by individuals holding these identities within the quantitative framework that dominates psychology. Although scholarship has grown in the exploration of experiences such as racialized sexual harassment, or sexual racism within queer and trans communities, there is no strong consensus on how this might be measured systematically in ways that allow for inferences regarding the experiences of populations of interest. With an emphasis on the experiences of queer and trans people of color, this article explores intersectional identities through three main points: First, we define what is meant by intersectionality and the real-world experiences that are important for advancing an understanding of microaggressions; second, we review the existing measures and their ability to capture the breadth and depth of the lived experience of those with intersectional identities; and third, we propose a framework for the development of a more accurate and comprehensive measure of microaggressions.
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Thomas, Cate, Colleen MacMillan, Merryn McKinnon, Hayley Torabi, Megan Osmond-McLeod, Ellen Swavley, Tamzen Armer, and Kimberley Doyle. "Seeing and Overcoming the Complexities of Intersectionality." Challenges 12, no. 1 (February 5, 2021): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/challe12010005.
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Background: Intersectionality contests that individuals have multiple characteristics in their identity that cannot be siloed or deemed exclusive to each other. Understanding and utilising an intersectional lens in organisations can increase inclusion of individuals and organisational performance. An educational package known as the Intersectionality Walk (IW) was developed by the authors, piloted, and evaluated in order to break down the commonly held descriptors of diversity silos that fragments inclusion, and to understand how various identity characteristics compound disadvantage. The paper outlines the need to transition from siloed views of diversity to a more intrinsic view of identity to achieve inclusivity. Methods: The IW was developed and trialled with a series of work-based scenarios and realistic multifaceted personas. Data collection occurred pre- and post-IW utilising a mixed methods approach. Responses to Likert scale surveys and open-ended questions were captured and analysed via inductive and grounded theory perspectives. Results: An improved awareness and understanding of individual knowledge, reflectivity and positionality relating to intersectionality and intersectional approaches was reported on completion of the IW. Furthermore, responses reported how and why organisations can approach and improve inclusivity via using intersectional approaches. Conclusions: The IW as an educational package has a positive impact and is a key linkage for all employers to build an inclusive culture and to harness the talent of all employees. Further research will occur to measure the implemented change in organisations following the IW.
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Gouma, Assimina, and Johanna Dorer. "Researching intersectionality in media studies: Theoretical approaches, methods and applications in communication and media research practice." International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 15, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 345–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/macp_00005_1.
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Abstract Intersectionality is a critical approach to theorizing and exploring the interlocking of social inequality categories such as gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality in various levels of policies, social discourses, institutions and subject positionings. While social discourses do not arise in isolation from an all-encompassing media world, media, as co-producers of social power relations, are particularly interesting for the concept of intersectionality. However, the intersectional approach is rather a research field at the margins of German communication studies. This article discusses the theoretical prerequisites and methodological implications of intersectionality and provides examples of how an empirical implementation is possible in media research.
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Mulinari, Paula, and Rebecca Selberg. "Intersectional Directions in Working Life Research—a Proposal." Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 3, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.19154/njwls.v3i3.3012.
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A central challenge to gender studies during the last 15 years has been the expanding field of intersectionality. The use of intersectional perspectives within working life research has explored how class, sexuality, and race difference affected women’s position in the labor market. The aim of this article is to argue for the need of including an intersectional perspective in the field of working life research. By taking our point of departure in the work of feminist scholars Joan Acker, Miriam Glucksmann, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, we argue that an intersectional perspective can expand as well as challenge working life research. But we also argue that working life research in many ways can contribute to the field of intersectional studies, especially by placing issues of exploitation, distribution, and production at the core of intersectional analyses.
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Thomas, K. Bailey. "Intersectionality and Epistemic Erasure: A Caution to Decolonial Feminism." Hypatia 35, no. 3 (2020): 509–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2020.22.
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AbstractIn this article I caution that María Lugones's critiques of Kimberlé Crenshaw's intersectional theory posit a dangerous form of epistemic erasure, which underlies Lugones's decolonial methodology. This essay serves as a critical engagement with Lugones's essay “Radical Multiculturalism and Women of Color Feminisms” in order to uncover the decolonial lens within Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality. In her assertion that intersectionality is a “white bourgeois feminism colluding with the oppression of Women of Color,” Lugones precludes any possibility of intersectionality operating as a decolonial method. Although Lugones states that her “decolonial feminism” is for all women of color, it ultimately excludes Black women, particularly with her misconstruing of Crenshaw's articulation of intersectionality that is rooted within the Black American feminist tradition. I explore Lugones's claims by juxtaposing her rendering of intersectionality with Crenshaw's and conclude that Lugones's decolonial theory risks erasing Black women from her framework.
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Chisty, Musabber Ali, Syeda Erena Alam Dola, Nesar Ahmed Khan, and Md Mostafizur Rahman. "Intersectionality, vulnerability and resilience: why it is important to review the diversifications within groups at risk to achieve a resilient community." Continuity & Resilience Review 3, no. 2 (May 24, 2021): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/crr-03-2021-0007.
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PurposeThe objective of this study was to assess the relationship among intersectionality, vulnerability and resilience with evidence. The conceptual framework developed by the study believed that intersectionality and vulnerabilities intersect and reduce the level of disaster resilience.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative approach was followed with relevant support from both primary and secondary data to conduct the study. The study focused on flood as a specific natural hazard to assess the relationship among the indicators of the objective. Focus group discussions (FGDs) were performed in two different flood-prone areas of Bangladesh. FGDs included young men, young women, men and women with disabilities and older people. Also, secondary literature helped to support ground-level data.FindingsIn the face of a flood, results showed that people with intersectional characteristics become more vulnerable within the at-risk groups. There are differences in people's level of vulnerabilities among the people of vulnerable groups. The results support the discussion that intersectionality exaggerates vulnerabilities, thus reducing the level of disaster resilience. The study summarizes that intersectionality needs to be addressed while supporting groups at risk to achieve a resilient community.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is only based on qualitative and secondary data. For more generalized findings and implications, further research is needed. Also, this study will work as a guideline for future studies.Originality/valueThe study is one of the few works related to intersectionality. This study will open a new window to understand the importance of focusing on intersectional conditions while developing plans for disaster risk reduction (DRR).
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Cho, Sumi. "POST-INTERSECTIONALITY." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 10, no. 2 (2013): 385–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x13000362.
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AbstractAlthough intersectionality analysis originates in a critique of legal doctrine and its confining approach to subject formation, intersectionality has been adopted widely outside of legal scholarship—nationally and internationally—to explain how fields of power operate and interact to produce hierarchy for any limitless combination of identities. Yet, within law, some scholars have raised questions precisely about the capacity of intersectionality to grapple with subjects who occupy multiple social positions and those with “partially privileged” identities in particular. Thus, over roughly a decade, a critique took shape about the theoretical capacity and normative commitment of intersectionality theory to address particular subgroups.This essay tells part of the curious story about how a race-sexuality critique of intersectionality emerged, what may have motivated it, and how it has facilitated an emerging progressive masculinities literature that is “post-intersectional,” i.e., positioned over and against intersectionality. Like other post-intersectionality approaches, multidimensionality theorists decidedly seek to ‘get beyond’ something, and that ‘something’ that underwrites the turn away from intersectionality appears not as substantive theoretical or analytical content, or as political strategy, but rather, as identity-driven and engendered.
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Jones, Chelsea. "Review of Hill Collins, P., & Bilge, S. (2016), "Intersectionality"." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 6, no. 4 (November 24, 2017): 210–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v6i4.390.
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Ready or not: intersectionality is sweeping across classrooms in largely student-led strokes. Luckily, Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge, women who’ve penned texts to the tune of critical inquiry and praxis for years, remind us what intersectionality means and how it emerges in their latest collaboration, Intersectionality. Their book highlights concerns with intersectionality’s institutionalization while simultaneously arguing that many colleges and universities have missed opportunities to connect with the ways students live intersectionally (through jobs, sports, care-roles, and so on) (47). Urging readers away from insincere “diversity” and “cultural competence” claims, they explain that readers with vested interested in education work in contexts where “some forms of diversity remain more desirable than others” and that taking intersectionality seriously means engaging in critical, collaborative, coalition-building work “with people who really are different” (174, 169).
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Singh, Rajdeep. "Gender and Middle-East: An Intersectionality Perspective." English Linguistics Research 8, no. 2 (May 21, 2019): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v8n2p10.
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Intersectionality, the relations among different social variables and their interplay, is an inevitable and most employed way of analyzing the gender related issues. We also consider the intersectionality as a great window to new horizons for gender equality aspirations and research. By modifying the more traditional type of intersectional research methodology, we could build up a solid framework for future studies on gender issues particular to the Middle-East. Our goal is to offer a modern model for intersectional studies specific to middle-east, brining onboard different perspectives, usually neglected in mainstream intersectional studies on gender. This model provides a firm ground for psychological questions touching individual as well interpersonal and social dimensions. For this, we concentrate on Iran where the feminist movement is growing fast and there are reasons to believe that it has religious and social texture similar to the rest of the region. We used intersectional methodology as we consider this the most suitable for gender studies. This paper presents a novel model which offers a great unique opportunity to understand the complexity of factors involving the gender issues in a region which is growing fast but still clings to traditions. We further illustrate how the language plays a role in implementing governmental policy which brings about changes in identity and gender inequality.
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Enßle, Friederike, and Ilse Helbrecht. "Ungleichheit, Intersektionalität und Alter(n) – für eine räumliche Methodologie in der Ungleichheitsforschung." Geographica Helvetica 73, no. 3 (September 13, 2018): 227–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-227-2018.
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Abstract. This article explores the interplay of inequality, space and age(ing) from an intersectional perspective. It argues, that a spatial research methodology is most fruitful in order to include age(ing) in debates on intersectionality and inequality. Drawing on geographical gerontology and inequality research, we scrutinize the research gap at the intersection of these fields: While age is a neglected factor in intersectional debates on inequality, questions of power are hardly addressed by geographical gerontology. To bridge this research gap, we propose space as methodological perspective. By showing how the negotiation of age(ing) varies in different spatial settings, the article emphasises the value of spatial approaches to analyse the two faces of age(ing) – age as a marker of difference and ageing as a process. On a larger scale, the article points to the potential of a spatial methodology to approach the complexity of intersectionality.
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Martin, Ana. "Intersectionality: Explaining SGBV Interlinked with Terrorism and Other International Crimes." Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence 1, no. 2 (November 30, 2020): 135–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.7590/266644720x16062928261028.
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Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is often intertwined with and nested within other violations of international criminal law (ICL) as part of a broader attack against a group. However, ICL is not giving enough visibility to this nexus of crimes rooted in the intersection of identities and discrimination that underpins SGBV during conflict. Intersectionality is a concept originated in feminism and progressively recognized by international human rights law (IHRL). It posits that SGBV is caused by gender 'inextricably linked' with other identities and factors that result in compounded discrimination and unique aggravated harms. Based on case studies, this paper argues that ICL should integrate an intersectional approach based on identity and discrimination to address the nexus between SGBV and broader international crimes. Intersectionality enables a better understanding of the causes, harms, and gravity of SGBV, and it provides consistency with an IHRL interpretation. The article begins setting out the foundations of intersectionality in feminism and IHRL, and its applicability to ICL. It then applies intersectionality to two case studies that demonstrate the interlink of SGBV with broader violations of ICL: The Revolutionary United Front Case (RUF) trial judgment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) concerning SGBV and the war crime committing acts of terrorism, and Al Hassan, prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC), concerning SGBV and the crime against humanity of persecution. It concludes with final remarks on why and how ICL would benefit from integrating an intersectional approach to SGBV.
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Carastathis, Anna. "The Invisibility of Privilege: A critique of intersectional models of identity." Les ateliers de l'éthique 3, no. 2 (April 12, 2018): 23–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1044594ar.
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In this paper, I argue that intersectionality, the prevailing way of conceptualizing the relation between axes or systems of oppression (race, class, gender), illicitly imports the very model it purports to overcome: that is, the unitary model of identity. I first define “intersectionality” and distinguish between three senses that are frequently conflated. Then I subject the model to an analytic critique, revealing its hidden presuppositions about identity. Finally, I suggest that solidarity serves as a better norm for feminist practice than inclusion of “difference,” which seems to be the norm underlying many intersectional accounts.
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Ewig, Christina. "Forging Women's Substantive Representation: Intersectional Interests, Political Parity, and Pensions in Bolivia." Politics & Gender 14, no. 3 (September 2018): 433–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x18000211.
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AbstractLacking tools to measure substantive representation, empirical research to date has determined women’s substantive representation by identifying “women’s interests” a priori, with little attention to differences across race, class, or other inequalities. To address this problem, I develop the concept of intersectional interests and a method for identifying these. Intersectional interests represent multiple perspectives and are forged through a process of political intersectionality that purposefully includes historically marginalized perspectives. These interests can be parsed into three types: expansionist, integrationist, and reconceived. Identification of intersectional interests requires, first, an inductive mapping of the differing women’s perspectives that exist in a specific context and then an examination of the political processes that lead to these new, redefined interests. I demonstrate the concept of intersectional interests and how to identify these in Bolivia, where I focus on the political process of forging reconceived intersectional interests in Bolivia’s political parity and pension reforms.
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Baca Zinn, Maxine, and Ruth Enid Zambrana. "Chicanas/Latinas Advance Intersectional Thought and Practice." Gender & Society 33, no. 5 (June 22, 2019): 677–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243219853753.
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Despite the considerable body of scholarship and practice on interconnected systems of dominance and its effects on women in different social locations, Chicanas remain “outside the frame” of mainstream academic feminist dialogues. This article provides an overview of the contributions of Chicana intersectional thought, research, and activism. We highlight four major scholarly areas of contribution: borders, identities, institutional inequalities, and praxis. Although not a full mapping of the Chicana/Latina presence in intersectionality, it proffers the distinctive features and themes defining the intersectional terrain of Chicana feminism.
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Rice, Carla, Elisabeth Harrison, and May Friedman. "Doing Justice to Intersectionality in Research." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 19, no. 6 (February 15, 2019): 409–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708619829779.
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Intersectionality involves the study of the ways that race, gender, disability, sexuality, class, age, and other social categories are mutually shaped and interrelated through forces such as colonialism, neoliberalism, geopolitics, and cultural configurations to produce shifting relations of power and oppression. The concept does not always offer a clear set of tools for conducting social research. Instead, it offers varied strands of thought, pointing to different methodologies and methods for doing intersectional research. In this article, we trace the genealogy of intersectionality as theory and methodology to identify challenges in translating the concept into research methods, and we review debates about what we identify as three “critical movements” in the intersectionality literature, comprising contestations regarding the theory’s aims, scope, and axioms, in scholarship and research. Finally, we consider how these critical movements can offer researchers some guiding ethical principles for doing intersectionality justice in social research.
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Strolovitch, Dara Z. "Intersectionality in Time: Sexuality and the Shifting Boundaries of Intersectional Marginalization." Politics & Gender 8, no. 03 (August 22, 2012): 386–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x12000372.
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Atewologun, Doyin. "Sites of intersectional identity salience." Gender in Management: An International Journal 29, no. 5 (July 1, 2014): 277–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-12-2013-0140.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore experiences relating to and the nature of the episodes that raise individuals’ salience of their intersecting gender, ethnic and senior organizational identities. This paper is based on a presentation given at a British Academy of Management Joint Gender in Management and Identity Special Interest Groups Research Seminar entitled “Exploring Intersectionality of Gender and Identity”. Design/methodology/approach – Based on identity-heightening incidents elicited through diaries and interviews from minority ethnic women and men in middle- and senior-management positions, the paper adopts a multilevel, intersectional framework to present “sites” of intersectional identity salience. Identity-salient sites were analysed from accounts of episodes that raised the salience of gender, ethnic and senior identities for respondents. Researcher reflections on identity salience are also analysed. Findings – This paper draws on subjective accounts of identity salience from researcher and respondent experiences on pre-defined identity dimensions. Research limitations/implications – This paper uses rich, in-depth accounts of everyday experiences to reveal the dynamics of intersectional identity salience. Gender, ethnic and senior identities infuse each other with significance and meaning simultaneously and consecutively in everyday experiences. Originality/value – This paper’s originality is drawn from the advancement of intersectionality studies through empirical research based on collecting identity-heightening qualitative data.
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Arifeen, Shehla R., and Jawad Syed. "The challenges of fitting in." Personnel Review 49, no. 5 (November 28, 2019): 1194–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pr-02-2019-0093.
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Purpose Intersectional scholarship on work and organizations while focusing on subjectivities and intersections largely overlooks the systemic dynamics of power (Rodriguez et al., 2016). One of the systemic dynamics of power is organizational practice (Acker, 2006). Intersectionality research on minority ethnic women pays relatively less attention to the role of organizational practices in career progression. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the interaction of intersectional identities of second-generation British Pakistani women managers and professionals with organizational practices and norms, and the resulting challenges and career implications. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research approach was used with interviews of 37 participants who were in managerial or professional positions. Findings The research finds a resilience of discrimination because of expectations of compliance with dominant workplace cultures. This expectation presents challenges for minority ethnic women managers. The paper reveals that the intersectionality of gender, ethnicity and religion clashes specifically, with organizational expectations of being male, of being white, and of work-related socializing, which may adversely affect career progression. Organizations, thus, may feed into minority ethnic women managers’ inability to fit in and merge by implicitly demanding compliance or fitting in. These findings carry implications for HRM policies and practices. Originality/value Advancing intersectionality scholarship, the research finds the disadvantage caused by the intersection of gender, ethnicity and religion (intersectional identities) continues to be reproduced because of particular organizational demand and expectations and the non-compliance of minority ethnic women managers to merge and fit in. In other words, organizations implicitly demanding fitting in, and the inability to fit in and merge by minority ethnic women managers, hampers their careers.
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Męcińska, Lula. "Osobista narracja jako sposób wyrażenia intersekcjonalnego aktywizmu ucieleśnionego… w internecie: przypadek Eve C." Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura, no. 10(1) (March 2018): 38–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20837275.10.1.4.
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Personal narrative as a way to express intersectional activism embodied in the Internet: the case of Eve C The article looks at the intersectional performances of activist identity online. By tracing the work of Evelyn C., the article considers the position of emergent experts among the peer supporters and bloggers in online communities centred on perinatal mental health and breastfeeding. Through this, it seeks to explore the augmenting possibilities embodied in individual performances of complex activist identities for collective advancement of identity-based health-concerned activist groups. Keywords: activism, maternal, mental health, embodied, intersectionality