Intersectionalizing European politics: bridging gender and ethnicity

Mügge, Liza; Jong, Sara de

doi:10.1080/21565503.2013.816247

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“…While some scholars criticize intersectionality for being too rooted in modern nature/culture and human/non-human binaries, others engage in critical and affirmative dialogues with intersectional thought within their own disciplines (see also Mügge & de Jong, 2013). One such scholar is political scientist Mieke Verloo, who argues that the European Union currently lacks policies that take multiple and diverse inequalities into account.…”

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From intersectionality to interference: Feminist onto-epistemological reflections on the politics of representation

Geerts

Tuin

2013

Women's Studies International Forum

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This article reviews the debate on 'intersectionality' as the dominant approach in gender studies, with an emphasis on the politics of representation. The debate on intersectionality officially began in the late 1980s, though the approach can be traced back to the institutionalization of women's studies in the 1970s and the feminist movement of the 1960s. Black and lesbian feminists have long advocated hyphenated identities to be the backbone of feminist thought. But in recent years, intersectionality has sustained criticism from numerous angles within gender studies, ranging from feminist philosophy to applied political research. This article will use the theorization of 'interference' as a searchlight to produce an overview of this interdisciplinary debate, culminating in our affirmative answer to the question: should we move from intersectionality to interference? Our answer is based on onto-epistemological reflections, i.e., reflections in which being and knowing are always already entangled.

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From intersectionality to interference: Feminist onto-epistemological reflections on the politics of representation

Geerts

Tuin

2013

Women's Studies International Forum

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“…There has been a rigorous debate as to the extent to which descriptive representation in legislatures translates, or not, in to the substantive representation of women's interests (e.g. Bochel & Briggs, 2000;Lovenduski, 2001;Dahlerup & Friedenvall, 2005;Celis et al, 2008;Childs & Krook, 2009); the intersectional nature of this (Mugge & de Jong, 2013;Ward, 2017); and the representation of women's interests by political activists (Evans, 2016;Mendes, 2015). In public policy, gendered mainstreaming provides a conceptual framework from which to evaluate the extent to which public policy functions to reduce gendered inequality (Lombardo, 2005;True, 2010).…”

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The politics of normalising gendered violence: feminised austerity and masculinised wealth creation

Savigny

Scullion

2019

European Journal of Politics and Gender

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According to United Nations data, one in three women worldwide are subject to violence. Yet, the systemic embedding of male sexual violence often fails to be part of public discussion. To explore this relative silencing of mediated discussion is to consider how media normalise male violence towards women. This structural obfuscation serves to reinforce the gendered violence upon which these structures are located. This is the context in which hegemonic masculinity now takes a reified neoliberal form, which serves to normalise the violence of gendered power relations. Illustrating this, we explore the way in which austerity has been positioned as a policy of violence. We argue that by exposing how neoliberal hegemonic masculinity is central to the construction of gender, and exploring how this is disseminated, we are able to show how male violence towards women is legitimated in mediated political discourse.

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“…As Korteweg and Triadafilopoulos (: 128) argue in reference to the Netherlands, “mobilisations of gender, religion, and ethnic differences at the highest level of policy making reinforce perceptions of the gendered practices of ethnic minority women and girls (and by extension, of ethnic minority men and boys) as obstacles to integration, enabling calls for strong forms of assimilation.” In reference to family reunification policies in the United Kingdom, Yuval‐Davis et al. (: 519) argue that intersecting notions of gender, ethnicity and religion allow policymakers to see (predominantly female) family migrants as “introducing traditional practices, such as arranged marriage, authoritarian gender and generational relations, and religious practices into secular, modern and liberal societies”, a construction used to justify exclusionary immigration measures that disproportionately affect Muslim women (see also Korteweg and Yurdakul, ; Muegge and de Jong, ).…”

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Managing the National Status Group: Immigration Policy in Germany

Elrick

Winter

2017

International Migration

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This article challenges the established convention in immigration policy scholarship of treating economic utility and identity maintenance as logically distinct concerns. Drawing on work by Weber, Wallerstein and Bourdieu, we argue that concerns about economic utility and identity maintenance interact in the immigration policies of Western liberal democratic states, leading to policies designed to build and maintain middle‐class national status groups. Using the example of contemporary immigration policy in Germany, we illustrate how this impulse to build the middle‐class status group affects immigrant inclusion/exclusion in nuanced ways at both the group and individual levels, along class/status, ethnic and gender lines. We conclude by considering the policy implications of growing and shaping populations according to middle‐class ideals, particularly for the statistical monitoring of immigrant populations for integration benchmarking purposes.

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Intersectionalizing European politics: bridging gender and ethnicity

Cited by 26 publications

References 48 publications

From intersectionality to interference: Feminist onto-epistemological reflections on the politics of representation

From intersectionality to interference: Feminist onto-epistemological reflections on the politics of representation

The politics of normalising gendered violence: feminised austerity and masculinised wealth creation

Managing the National Status Group: Immigration Policy in Germany

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