Dear colleagues,
We invite submissions to the panel “Intersectionality and Class” at the ARC-GS conference Social Class in the 21st Century, which will take place at the University of Amsterdam on 22 and 23 October 2015.
Please note that all abstracts have to be submitted through the conference website www.arcgs.uva.nl<http://www.arcgs.uva.nl> , and that the deadline is 29th May.
Looking forward to your contributions,
Katrine Smiet & Willemijn Krebbekx
Title: Intersectionality and Class
Panel Conveners: Katrine Smiet, Radboud University Nijmegen and Willemijn Krebbekx, University of Amsterdam
Intersectionality, a term introduced by the legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw (Crenshaw, 1989), has grown into an important framework for (feminist) scholarship that analyzes the mutual connections and co-constructions of inequalities based on gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, and the notorious “etc”. Intersectionality has been hailed as "the most important theoretical contribution that women's studies... has made so far" (McCall 2005, 1771) and is seen by many as a conceptual nodal point for feminist scholarship (Lykke, 2011). Intersectionality has been taken up as a framework for studies of social positioning, as a theoretical and methodological paradigm, and as a lens for political interventions (Cho, Crenshaw, & McCall, 2013). At the same time, the framework has been criticized from different angles.
In particular, scholars who center class in their analysis question the effectiveness of intersectionality to theorize and think through class. For instance, British feminist scholar Beverly Skeggs argues that different categories work according to different logics, and that ‘lumping’ them together may not be useful (Skeggs, 2008). She implies that the intersectional way of thinking about gender, race and class does not necessarily produce an analysis that is critical of capitalism. Similarly, Nira Yuval-Davis argues that social divisions need to be studied at different analytical levels, that their ontological base and their relations to each other differ (Yuval-Davis, 2006).
This panel welcomes submissions that reflect on the relation between intersectionality and class analysis. Contributions can be based on theoretical analysis or empirical studies, and should ideally connect to the interdisciplinary field of gender studies. Relevant questions are: How has class been understood and studied in intersectional approaches? How can we study class in relation to other axes of inequality, like gender, race/ethnicity and sexuality? What are the benefits and possible pitfalls of the intersectional framework?
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