Gender Equality, Intersectionality, and Diversity in Europe
Gender is being marginalized with the increased attention to "multiple discrimination" and civil society landscape at the transnational level is increasingly diversified. The book looks at the processes of (strategic) degendering in EU policy-making and o
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The Politics of Intersectionality series builds on the longstanding insights of intersectionality theory from a vast variety of disciplinary perspectives. The books in this series represent an interrogation of intersectionality at various levels of analysis. They unabashedly foreground the politics of intersectionality in a way that is designed to both honor the legacy of earlier scholarship and push the boundaries of intersectionality’s value to the academy and most importantly to the world. We interpret the series title, “The Politics of Intersectionality,” in two general ways: First, we emphasize the politics of intersectionality, broadly conceived; that is to say we include debates among scholars regarding the proper conceptualization and application of the term “intersectionality” as part and parcel of the series’ intellectual project. What this means pragmatically is that rather than dictatorially denote an extant definition of intersectionality and impose it on every author’s manuscript, as series editors our task has been to push each author to grapple with their own conceptualization of intersectionality and facilitate their interaction with an ever-growing body of global scholarship, policy, and advocacy work as they render such a conceptualization transparent to readers, reflexive as befits the best feminist work, and committed to rigorous standards of quality no matter the subject, the method, or the conclusions. As editors we have taken such an active role precisely because grappling with the politics of intersectionality demands our adherence to the normative standards of transparency, reflexivity, and speaking to multiple and mutually constituting sites of power for which intersectionality is not only known but lauded as the gold standard. It is our honor to build this area of scholarship across false boundaries of theory and praxis, artificially distinct academic disciplines, and the semipermeable line between scholarship and activism. No less importantly we emphasize politics to mean, well, politics, whether everyday senses of justice; so-called formal politics of social movements, campaigns, elections, policy, and government institutions; or personal politics of identity, community, and activism across a broad swath of the world. While this general conceptualization of politics lends itself to the social sciences, we define social sciences in a broad way that again seeks to unite theoretical concerns (whether normative or positive) with interpretive and empirical approaches across an array of topics far too numerous to list in their entirety.
10.1057/9781137028105 - Gender Equality, Intersectionality, and Diversity in Europe, Lise Rolandsen Agustín
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The Politics of Intersectionality
Series Editors: Ange-Marie Hancock, University of Southern California Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London Also in the series: Solidarity Politics for Millennials Ange-Marie Hancock Socia
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