Intersectional insights and frameworks are put into practice in a multitude of highly contested, complex, and unpredictable ways. We group such engagements with intersectionality into three loosely defined sets of practices: applications of an intersectional framework or investigations of intersectional dynamics; debates about the scope and content of intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological paradigm; and political interventions employing an intersectional lens. We propose a template for fusing these three levels of engagement with intersectionality into a field of intersectional studies that emphasizes collaboration and literacy rather than unity. Our objective here is not to offer pat resolutions to all questions about intersectional approaches but to spark further inquiry into the dynamics of intersectionality both as an academic frame and as a practical intervention in a world characterized by extreme inequalities. At the same time, we wish to zero in on some issues that we believ...

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Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis

The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars

Intersectionality is understood as a metaphor (Cuadraz and Uttal, 1999; Acker, 2011), a concept (Knapp, 2005; Styhre and Ericksson-Zetterquist, 2008), a research paradigm (Hancock, 2007a; Dhamoon, 2011), an ideograph (Alexander-Floyd, 2012), a broad-based knowledge project (Collins, 2015), and an analytical sensibility (Crenshaw, 2015). In spite of these diverse definitions, intersectionality has been central to the study of inequality, identity and power relations in recent history (Cho et al., 2013), highlighting the inseparability of categories of social differences such as race, gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality and nation, and calling attention to the systemic power dynamics that arise as multiple dimensions of social difference interact across individual, institutional, cultural and societal spheres of influence (Collins, 2000; McCall, 2005; Yuval-Davis, 2006, 2011; Weber, 2010). Coined as a term by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 to “counter the disembodiment of Black women from Law” (Crenshaw, 2014), intersectionality captured the

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The Theory and Praxis of Intersectionality in Work and Organisations: Where Do We Go From Here?

昨年度より書評欄を設けました。昨年度は、 集中的に特定の研究「リベラリズムとその周辺」 をテーマとして掲げた欄でした。マイケル・サ ンデルの授業がテレビ中継されるようになり、 リベラリズム、コミュニタリアニズム、共和主 義などの政治哲学に注目が集まりました。しか し、そこで議論の対象や方法となっているもの は、単に政治哲学だけにとどまるものではなく、 コミュニケーション学にも大きく関わるもので した。多文化主義やフェミニズムなどとも深く 関わっているものが多いため、隣接領域に興味 を持っている方は多いと思います。 今年度も同様のテーマを掲げ、コミュニケー ション学との接点を研究してまいりたいと思っ ております。この書評は掲載して終わり、とい うわけではありません。インフォーマルな勉強 会、年次大会を利用した研究会、そして、年次 大会での報告など、この書評をみなさんが利用 することで、アカデミックな刺激に満ちた機会 をさらに作り出せればと思っております。 また、このテーマだけに限定をしない書評も 受け付けております。コミュニケーション学に 深い関わりのある本の書評をたくさん集めたい と思っております。 来年度も、書評欄はありますので奮ってご参 加ください。毎年、1 月末日を締め切りとして います。送付先は以下の通りです。書式や字数 は、今年度のものを参考にしてください(字数 は目安で、特別長すぎないものであれば議論を 尊重します)。 送付先<藤巻光浩 fujimaki[アットマークを 入れる]u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp> イマヌエル・カント著『永遠平和のために /啓蒙とは何か、他3編』(中山元訳, 2000 年)光文社古典新訳文庫

Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America

This article contributes to current debates and discussions in critical social theory about diversity, inclusion/exclusion, power, and social justice by exploring intersectionality as an important theoretical resource to further develop and advance care ethics. Using intersectionality as a critical reference point, the investigation highlights two key shortcomings of care ethics which stem from this ethics’ prioritization of gender and gendered power relations: inadequate conceptualizations of diversity and power. The article draws on concrete examples related to migrant domestic work to illustrate how an intersectionality lens can advance new theoretical insights for understanding caring practices (or lack of them), and generate new methodological and practical strategies for confronting and transforming the deeply entrenched interlocking power inequities that undermine the realization of care in an increasingly complex context of national and international policy and politics.

Rethinking Care Ethics: On the Promise and Potential of an Intersectional Analysis

The history of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) in Oakland and San Jose, California, over nearly three decades provides a vivid illustration of social movement intersectionality in action and illuminates the relationships that link social theory to social movements. Serving the interests and aspirations of low-wage immigrant women workers with limited English-language skills, AIWA confronts diffuse and differential forms of interlocking oppression and deploys intersectionality to help activists change multiple states of subordinated voicelessness and devaluation into an empowered sense of self-representation and self-activity. For AIWA, an intersectional optic on social movement struggles creates insurgent identities that are dynamic and dialogic, more fluid and flexible than single-axis approaches. AIWA does not embrace intersectionality simply because its members have been wounded by racism, sexism, imperialism, class exploitation, and language discrimination but because each realm of thes...

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Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates

No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject. Martha NochimsonScreen Memories: The Hungarian Cinema of Marta Meszaros. Catherine PortugesMake Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. Lynn Spigel

Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Faye Ginsburg , Anna Lowenhaupt TsingLabor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America. Paula Rabinowitz

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Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates

No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject. Martha NochimsonScreen Memories: The Hungarian Cinema of Marta Meszaros. Catherine PortugesMake Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. Lynn Spigel

Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Faye Ginsburg , Anna Lowenhaupt TsingLabor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America. Paula Rabinowitz