Postcolonial Feminism and Intersectionality

Bartels, Anke; Eckstein, Lars; Waller, Nicole; Wiemann, Dirk

doi:10.1007/978-3-476-05598-9_15

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“…Finally, there are postcolonial critiques of the use of intersectionality (Bartels et al, 2019;In Davis & Lutz, 2023;Kerner, 2017;Wallaschek, 2015). While intersectionality focuses on equality, postcolonial theories have analyzed global power relations and interactions (Kerner, 2017).…”

Section: Collective Action: Opportunities and Threatsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective

Bonu Rosenkranz

2024

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The review article explores the concept of intersectionality within feminist movements from a global perspective. First, it reconstructs the origins of the concept. Second, it summarizes the main critical debates. Third, it gives an overview on the new wave of feminist movements, by exploring the way several movements from the North to the Global South have actively engaged with the concept of intersectionality into action. Finally, the article discusses opportunity and threats in the diffusion of the concept, both in the academic debate and in the field of collective action. The main takeaways of the article are: the emergence of the concept of intersectionality within the activism of women of color and Black feminism; the role of intersectionality as a critical analysis of power structures; the intersectional character of the new wave of feminist movements; the risks associated with the diffusion of the concept of intersectionality; the bleaching of intersectionality; and the co‐opting and depowering of the concept in an increasingly aggressive neo‐liberal order.

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Section: Collective Action: Opportunities and Threatsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective

Bonu Rosenkranz

2024

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“…Much like postcolonial feminist theory (the paradigm framing the current study), intersectionality seeks to unsettle the power relations that underpin broad social inequities and discrimination [97][98][99]. Although intersectionality and postcolonial feminist theory share many similarities, they are also different in several ways [100,101]. For example, intersectional feminist analysis examines social inequities by exposing the interlocking/compounding effect of oppression based on various identity categories, but largely focuses on the Western context.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Postcolonial feminist theory, however, emphasizes global power relations/interactions, imperialism, and the distinction between the metropole and colony in perpetuating unequal and hegemonic power dynamics between different groups around the world. For a discussion see [100,101]. Both approaches offer a unique way of analyzing honour-based crime, future research may seek to explore and compare how these two distinctive frameworks tackle this topic.…”

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Problematizing “Honour Crimes” within the Canadian Context: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Popular Media and Political Discourses

Gill

2022

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Honour-based violence has garnered significant attention within Canadian national discourses, especially within popular media and political rhetoric. Frequently conceptualized as a culturally specific form of violence embedded with patriarchal understandings of honour, these crimes have been mobilized within mainstream media to vilify certain ethnic and racial communities, particularly from the Global East. Relying on ethnocentric explanations, honour crimes are imagined as foreign phenomena that have been imported into Canada by immigrant populations who actively resist assimilation and fail to adopt liberal Western values of equality and freedom. This paper seeks to unsettle these very tropes surrounding the “honour crime” label using a postcolonial feminist lens. Drawing on the murder case of Aqsa Parvez, this paper calls into question the discursive strategies used to construct “honour crimes” and the racialized tropes that they perpetuate. Further, this paper examines how this label is mobilized to carry out “political work” and support certain political agendas, which include managing immigrant populations.

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“…Although Thompson (2018) establishes the importance of the relationship between sexism, racism, and ageism, he does it based on the notion of triple jeopardy (Norman, 1987) which is yet an additive perspective. Bartels et al (2019) point out that the perspective of triple jeopardy was used at the beginning of feminist analyses. In the study field of aging, it is important to bring an intersectional focus that, by being complex, allows macro considerations and reflects on the micro, the daily life, suggesting intervention means.…”

Section: Ageism In Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%