Who is the Subject of Intersectionality? Intersectional Feminism and Structuralist Philosophies of the Subject

谁是交叉性的主体？

• 批准号: 2858952
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Kingston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2858952
• 关键词: Who; Subject; Intersectionality; Intersectional; Feminism

The aim of this PhD project is to provide a philosophical grounding for the ideas about subjectivity and experience underpinning the concept of 'intersectionality' whilst simultaneously reflecting the criticism from intersectional feminism back on that philosophical grounding.Coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the term 'intersectionality' refers to the idea that in order to grasp the particular form of oppression experienced by women of colour we cannot understand gender and race oppression separately but must try and understand how they intersect. Investigating the tradition of intersectional feminism via structuralist philosophies of the subject, will allow me to throw light on a tension between two ideas dominating the field of intersectional feminism: the idea that oppressed people have an epistemic advantage when it comes to understanding their own oppression and the idea that oppression is reproduced by invisible power structures that operate in diffuse ways behind the backs of the subjects they affect and dominate.The study explores the idea that there is a dual subject at stake in intersectional analysis: whilst the subject underpinning structural analyses of power is subjugated and stands in an opaque relation to its lived experience, the subject underpinning standpoint theories is sovereign and stands in a transparent relation to its lived experience. The problem to be investigated is how these two accounts of subjectivity can be thought together, in order to realize a robust theory of oppression that recognizes a necessary opacity in the way in which the racial, capitalist and patriarchal order of oppression reproduces itself but without thereby depriving its 'subjects' of agency.By confronting the philosophies of the subject with the discourses on intersectionality developed within other disciplines, the research further seeks to problematize the theoretical framework for understanding the subject of oppression within Western philosophy.

这个博士项目的目的是为主体性和经验的思想提供一个哲学基础，支撑“交叉性”的概念，同时反映来自交叉女权主义的批评回到哲学基础。由法律的学者金伯利克伦肖在1989年提出，“交叉性”一词指的是这样一种观点，即为了掌握有色人种妇女所经历的特殊形式的压迫，我们不能单独理解性别和种族压迫。但必须试着理解它们是如何相交的通过结构主义哲学研究交叉女性主义的传统，将使我能够阐明主导交叉女性主义领域的两种观点之间的紧张关系：被压迫的人在理解自己的压迫时具有认知优势，压迫是由无形的权力结构在他们背后以分散的方式运作的，影响和支配。本研究探讨了这样一种观点，即在交叉分析中有一个双重主体：虽然支撑权力结构分析的主体被征服，并与其生活经验保持不透明的关系，但支撑立场理论的主体是主权的，并与其生活经验保持透明的关系。要研究的问题是，如何将这两种对主体性的解释放在一起思考，以实现一种强有力的压迫理论，这种理论承认种族、资本主义和父权制压迫秩序自我复制的方式具有必要的不透明性，但不会因此剥夺其“主体”的能动性。通过将主体的哲学与其他学科中发展起来的关于交叉性的论述相对抗，本研究进一步试图对西方哲学中理解压迫主题的理论框架进行问题化。