Please find below the CFP for a panel on Marxism and Intersectionality at the ARC-GS conference on Social Class in teh 21st Century in October.
Intersectionality and Marxism
Sara Farris, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Paul Mepschen, UvA
We welcome papers that explore the relationship of intersectionality and Marxism theoretically and look at the intersections of class and other aspects of social location, but we are also interested in historical explorations surrounding feminism, labor and other social movements.
Marxism and intersectionality have both played key roles as analytic strategies to confront structural power relations and to build resilient social movements. Interestingly, they have sometimes been understood as rival theoretical approaches - a rivalry fueled by ritual critiques from both sides of an imagined divide.
In recent years, various scholars and activists have argued against counterposing cultural and economic, as well as material and ideological categories, opening the way for more productive syntheses of Marxist theory and intersectionality. Furthermore, scholars from different traditions – Marxist and not – have increasingly come to acknowledge how race, gender, sexuality and class cannot be fruitfully thought and analysed separately one from the other. In this panel we want to explore the troubled relationship between intersectionality and Marxism, taking as our starting point Marx’ very own contribution to a theory on intersectionality in his sixth thesis on Feuerbach: “But the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations.”
Follow the link to submit a paper: http://arcgs.uva.nl/news-events/events/social-class-conference/social-class-conference/content/folder/panels/panels/panels/content/folder/intersectionality-and-marxism.html
Best,
Paul
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