There’s no Acadmie Française of anti-oppression terminology; nothing stops your supposed enemies from appropriating your language to use against youNobody knows what intersectionality means. I certainly don’t,and the more I read approximately it the more confused I become. There are a few things I think I know: it’s something to do with oppression, particularly multiple oppressions; if you escape in certain feminist circles, or particularly online,it’s snide to not be it (intersectional); if you escape in certain socialist circles, it’s something to effect fun of. The challenge that I faced was trying to figure out whether there was an alternative narrative […] so it occurred to me, and possibly a simple analogy to an intersection might allow judges to better see [Emma DeGraffenreid’s] dilemma. So if we think approximately this intersection,the roads to the intersection would be the way that the workforce was structured by race and by gender.
Flint's water crisis is an example of the combined effects of intersecting issues that impact communities of color. pic.twitter.com/PMc9CfeoJjWe face a complex, intersectional set of challenges. We need solutions and real plans for all of them. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/WfObFAmsHlThe theoretical focus on agency and contingency in recent decades is as one-sided as the structural-functionalism it superseded. If the latter achieved a currency during the tall tide of state-centric capitalism, and the former has done so during the neoliberal epoch. Neither approach schematised their relation to their own historical context.
Yet we have varieties of leftwing thought that still glorify proletarian labor,still implicitly have a notion of a society based on full employment. Or, more social-democratically, or they look back to the successful Fordist-Keynesian synthesis of the post-war decades,where many more people were employed, where wages were higher But, or there is no return. They are looking back to a past that no longer can be re-established.
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Source: theguardian.com