Shifting analytics and linking theories: A conversation about the “meaning-making” of intersectionality and transnational feminism

Falcón, Sylvanna M.; Nash, Jennifer C.

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2015.02.010

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“…Is intersectionality a methodology, conceptual tool or just an outdated idea? miss the crucial element of context, situation and condition that The Combahee River Collective understood and articulated back in 1977 (Ahmed, 2012;Bilge, 2013;Collins & Bilge, 2016;Falcón & Nash, 2015;Taylor et al 2010). The word intersectionality is not in The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement; however, it states that, 'the major systems of oppression are interlocking.…”

Section: Racial Grief Is Intersectionalmentioning

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Occupation of Racial Grief, Loss as a Resource: Learning From ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement’

Nayak

2019

Psychol Stud

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The methodology of 'occupation' through rereading The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement (The Combahee River Collective, in: James, Sharpley-Whiting (eds) The Black Feminist Reader. Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Oxford, pp 261-270, 1977) demonstrates the necessity of temporal linkages to historical Black feminist texts and the wisdom of Black feminist situated knowers. This paper argues that racism produces grief and loss and as long as there is racism, we all remain in racial grief and loss. However, in stark contrast to the configuration of racial grief and loss as something to get over, perhaps grief and loss can be thought about differently, for example, in terms of racial grief and loss as a resource. This paper questions Western Eurocentric paternalistic responses to Black women's 'talk about their feelings of craziness… [under] patriarchal rule' (The Combahee River Collective 1977: 262) and suggests alternative ways of thinking about the psychological impact of grief and loss in the context of racism. In this paper, a Black feminist occupation of racial grief and loss includes the act of residing within, and the act of working with the constituent elements of racial grief and loss. The proposal is that an occupation of racial grief and loss is a paradoxical catalyst for building a twenty-first century global intersectional Black feminist movement.

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Section: Racial Grief Is Intersectionalmentioning

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Occupation of Racial Grief, Loss as a Resource: Learning From ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement’

Nayak

2019

Psychol Stud

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“…That is, black women never feature as the central category or group of women under study. The second critique is that referred to as 'feminist originalism' where a tendency to possess intersectionality and dictate where and when it should be deployed within feminist research is seen to be a backlash against the more frequent application of intersectionality (Falcón and Nash 2015;Nash 2016). Several scholars writing on intersectionality have suggested that the concept is increasingly used in contexts where the history of the concept is unacknowledged, black women scholars or intersectionality theorists are not acknowledged or cited and/or where black women are eclipsed within the research and analysis.…”

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Problematizing military masculinity, intersectionality and male vulnerability in feminist critical military studies

Henry

2017

Critical Military Studies

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Recent work on the multiplicity of masculinities within specific military contexts deploys the concept of intersectionality in order to draw attention to the hierarchies present in military organisations or to acknowledge male 'vulnerability' in situations war and conflict. While it is important to examine the breadth and depth of masculinity as an ideology and practice of domination, it is also important for discussions of military masculinity, and intersectionality to be connected with the 'originary' black feminist project from which intersectionality has been born. This may indeed reflect a more nuanced and historically-attuned account of such concepts as intersectionality, but also black and double consciousness, standpoint and

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“…Such visibility or relative emphasis in news "creates a hierarchy of moral salience" [7] (pp. [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Regarding rape in particular, mainstream media coverage is said to be shaped by a series of "rape myths" [8].…”

Section: Feminist and Intersectional Approaches To News Coverage Of Rapementioning

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“…Critical transnational scholarship has also examined intersecting power hierarchies and the imageries and texts that have sustained these power hierarchies [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. However, while the latter (particularly the feminist work within this transnational literature) build on fundamental intersectional insights and extend them to the transnational scale, feminist transnational insights about power hierarchies across countries have not consistently influenced the nation-focused scholarship on intersectionality (For more on tensions between these approaches, see [20][21][22][23]). Situated within critical transnational scholarship, then, we direct our discussion here to the nation-focused scholarship on intersectionality.…”

Section: Feminist and Intersectional Approaches To News Coverage Of Rapementioning

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“…One long term consequence in terms of content, then, is that "news is principally about the nation, with most news across countries focusing primarily on the domestic arena [39] (pp. [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. In this vein, Gans" study of the news media in the US in the seventies makes the case that foreign news tends to be reported only for countries of national interest, with other countries covered only when there are "unusually dramatic happenings" [39] (p. 31).…”

Section: Situating News Media: Colonial Postcolonial and Nationalistmentioning

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Sexual Violence, Race and Media (In)Visibility: Intersectional Complexities in a Transnational Frame

Patil

Purkayastha

2015

Societies

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Intersectional scholarship argues that women of color have distinct experiences of rape compared to white women and highlights their relative invisibility as victims compared to white women victims in news media. While the bulk of intersectional work has examined such issues within one nation and particularly within the US, in an era of increasingly transnationalized media content, we explore such intersectionalities in a transnational frame. That is, we explore the treatment of the rape of a local Indian woman in New Delhi, India, and the rape of a white woman in Steubenville, USA, in the New York Times and the Times of India. We find that contra assumptions in the intersectional literature, the racialized Indian victim is hyper-visible across both papers while the white US victim is relatively invisible. Situating both newspapers within the global histories of the development of news as a particular genre of storytelling, we argue that their respective locations within larger processes shaped by colonial, imperial and neo-colonial histories have critical implications for the coverage each paper offers. Thus, we argue that issues of race and visibility in media operate very differently depending on the space and scale of analysis. In an increasingly globalized world, then, we must start paying attention to the transnational and its implications for rape, race and (in)visibility in news media. Ultimately, our approach brings together processes of racialization at multiple scales-both below the nation and above the nation-to offer a more complex, multi-scalar understanding of how

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Shifting analytics and linking theories: A conversation about the “meaning-making” of intersectionality and transnational feminism

Cited by 71 publications

References 16 publications

Occupation of Racial Grief, Loss as a Resource: Learning From ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement’

Occupation of Racial Grief, Loss as a Resource: Learning From ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement’

Problematizing military masculinity, intersectionality and male vulnerability in feminist critical military studies

Sexual Violence, Race and Media (In)Visibility: Intersectional Complexities in a Transnational Frame

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