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Informationen zum Autor Anna Carastathis is the codirector of the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research in Athens, Greece, where she coordinates the research area, Intersectionality: Critiques of Power and Coalitional Politics. Carastathis is the coauthor of Reproducing Refugees: PhotographÌa of a Crisis. Klappentext A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIntersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people’s lives. While “intersectionality” tends to circulate merely as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices in urging a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to “go beyond” intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorical purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements. Through a close reading of critical race theorist KimberlÉ Williams Crenshaw’s germinal texts, published more than twenty-five years ago, Carastathis urges analytic clarity, contextual rigor, and a politicized, historicized understanding of this pervasive concept. Intersectionality’s roots in social justice movements and critical intellectual projects-specifically black feminism-must be retraced and synthesized with a decolonial analysis so that its potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted. Zusammenfassung "Intersectionality critically examines the mainstreaming and institutionalization of this concept! offering a renewed understanding through close readings of some of its generative texts"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Women-of-Color Organizing2. Basements and Intersections3. Intersectionality as a Provisional Concept4. Critical Engagements with Intersectionality5. Identities as Coalitions6. Intersectionality and Decolonial FeminismConclusionReferencesIndex...
