Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis
Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis
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DOI：
10.1086/669608
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发表时间：
2013-06-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
McCall, Leslie
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作者：
Cho, Sumi;Crenshaw, Kimberle Williams;McCall, Leslie
跨部门的见解和框架以多种极具争议性、复杂和不可预测的方式付诸实践。我们将这种与交叉性的接触归类为三种松散定义的做法：应用交叉性框架或调查交叉性动态；关于交叉性作为理论和方法范式的范围和内容的辩论；以及采用交叉性视角的政治干预。我们提出了一个模板，将这三个层面的参与与交叉性结合起来，形成一个强调合作和扫盲而不是团结的交叉研究领域。我们在这里的目标不是为所有关于交叉性方法的问题提供恰当的解决方案，而是引发对交叉性作为一个学术框架和作为一个以极端不平等为特征的世界的实际干预的动态的进一步探讨。与此同时，我们希望把重点放在我们认为从一开始就在实地占有特殊地位的一些问题上，以及今后将界定该领域的关键问题上。为此，我们展望了构成主体的社会动力和关系，取代了通常看起来不适当的对主体(和类别)本身的强调，作为调查的起点。我们还将这些交叉研究的焦点的发展和争论置于学术和社会运动的政治中--我们认为，学术和社会运动本身具有深度的交叉性质，因此必须作为交叉项目的一部分不断进行审问。
Intersectional insights and frameworks are put into practice in a multitude of highly contested, complex, and unpredictable ways. We group such engagements with intersectionality into three loosely defined sets of practices: applications of an intersectional framework or investigations of intersectional dynamics; debates about the scope and content of intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological paradigm; and political interventions employing an intersectional lens. We propose a template for fusing these three levels of engagement with intersectionality into a field of intersectional studies that emphasizes collaboration and literacy rather than unity. Our objective here is not to offer pat resolutions to all questions about intersectional approaches but to spark further inquiry into the dynamics of intersectionality both as an academic frame and as a practical intervention in a world characterized by extreme inequalities. At the same time, we wish to zero in on some issues that we believe have occupied a privileged place in the field from the very start, as well as on key questions that will define the field in the future. To that end, we foreground the social dynamics and relations that constitute subjects, displacing what often seems like an undue emphasis on the subjects (and categories) themselves as the starting point of inquiry. We also situate the development and contestation of these focal points of intersectional studies within the politics of academic and social movements—which, we argue, are themselves deeply intersectional in nature and therefore must continually be interrogated as part of the intersectional project.