Intersectional Knowledges : Roots, Routes and Visions

Susan Arndt

ISBN 10: 3837676536 / ISBN 13: 9783837676532

Published by Transcript Apr 2025, 2025

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Neuware - Intersectionality is a transformative framework that transcends traditional social categorizations, emphasizing the interconnectedness of identities like class, race, and gender. The contributors to this volume offer profound insights into the complexities of human experiences, social structures, and power dynamics. Unique in its global perspective, their analysis incorporates critical voices from the Global South and examines minority experiences in the Global North. It aims to carry the tradition of intersectionality as a social critical theory to the European context and addresses key issues in German academia, proposing new definitions and structures to advance Intersectionality Studies. This poses an essential invitation to critically engage with and reshape existing power structures in the production of knowledge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intersectional Knowledges : Roots, Routes and Visions
• Publisher: Transcript Apr 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837676536
• ISBN 13: 9783837676532
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 150H x 15D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 354 grams

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Synopsis

Intersectionality is a transformative framework that transcends traditional social categorizations, emphasizing the interconnectedness of identities like class, race, and gender. The contributors to this volume offer profound insights into the complexities of human experiences, social structures, and power dynamics. Unique in its global perspective, their analysis incorporates critical voices from the Global South and examines minority experiences in the Global North. It aims to carry the tradition of intersectionality as a social critical theory to the European context and addresses key issues in German academia, proposing new definitions and structures to advance Intersectionality Studies. This poses an essential invitation to critically engage with and reshape existing power structures in the production of knowledge.

About the Authors

Susan Aleo Arndt ist Professorin für britische und afrikanische Literaturen an der Universität Bayreuth und Sprecherin des Promotionskollegs für Intersektionalitätsstudien. Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind intersektioneller Rassismus und britische sowie englischsprachige afrikanische Literatur.

Mario Faust-Scalisi ist Postdoc und Koordinator des Promotionskollegs für Intersektionalitsstudien an der Universität Bayreuth. Faust-Scalisis Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Comicstudien und -aktivismus, zivilgesellschaftlicher Aktivismus, Minderheiten, Queer Studies und -aktivismus sowie Intersektionalität mit Arbeiten zu Europa, Amerika und darüber hinaus.