Beyond Mutual Constitution: The Properties Framework for Intersectionality Studies

Jorba, Marta; Rodó-Zárate, Maria

doi:10.1086/703499

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“…At the individual level, we conceive that the effects of these social hierarchies on mating depend on the relative position of the subject in racial and gender axes of inequality respect to the position of the other individuals of the population, and therefore on the context. Yuval-Davis (2006); Anthias (2012); Jorba and Rodó-Zárate (2019) .…”

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The genomic footprint of social stratification in admixing American populations

Mas-Sandoval

Mathieson

Fumagalli

2022

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Cultural and socioeconomic differences stratify human societies and shape their genetic structure beyond the sole effect of geography. Despite mating being limited by the permeability of sociocultural stratification, most demographic models in population genetics often assume random mating. Taking advantage of the correlation between sociocultural stratification and the proportion of genetic ancestry in admixed populations, we sought to infer the former process in the Americas. To this aim, we define a mating model where the individual proportions of the genome inherited from Native American, European and sub-Saharan African ancestral populations constrain the mating probabilities through ancestry-related assortative mating and sex bias parameters. We simulate a wide range of admixture scenarios under this model. Then, we train a deep neural network and retrieve good performance in predicting mating parameters from genomic data. Our results show how population stratification shaped by racial and gender hierarchies have constrained the admixture processes in the Americas since the European colonisation and the subsequent Atlantic slave trade.

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The genomic footprint of social stratification in admixing American populations

Mas-Sandoval

Mathieson

Fumagalli

2022

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“…Intersectionality theory, which originated within Black Feminism, but has subsequently been applied to legal analysis and empirical research, assumes that individuals’ multiple identities locate or position them within multiple levels of inequality among social systems (Jorba & Rodó-Zárate, 2019). Further, the combinations of these inseparable interlocking identities “dynamically intersect,” thereby exacerbating instances of discrimination (Khan et al, 2017; Sina & Taylor, 2019; Seng et al, 2012).…”

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Beyond the axes of inequality: Religion, race, and everything in between.

Abu-Ras¹,

Suárez²,

Breiwish³

2021

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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This study examined the mental health outcomes of a diverse group of 549 individuals experiencing discrimination based on their multiple subordinate identities: ethnicity/race, religion, nativity, and sexual orientation. Applying an intersectionality framework, the findings provide an understanding of the impact of discrimination and racism on minority groups' mental health within the heterosexual and Lesbian, Gay, bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) context. Significant differences were found on levels of discrimination and racism across ethnic, racial, sexual, and gender minority groups, particularly among Muslim/Jewish, Arab/African, male, and foreign-born participants. Results suggest that subordinate identities and statuses shape the racism and discrimination experiences of the participants. The paper concludes with a discussion of practice and policy implications. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.

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“…In intersectionality studies, authors generally define the relation among categories as one of mutual constitution. However, ‘mutual constitution’ can have very different meanings: it is conceptualized as the fact that categories affect each other (Anthias, 2013), change the nature of each other (Garry, 2011; Ken, 2008), fuse (Lugones, 2007) or that one category is intensified or mitigated by another (Khader, 2013; Rodó-de-Zárate, 2014) among others (see Jorba and Rodó-Zárate, 2019 for a detailed analysis). If we set aside the question of what ‘mutual constitution’ exactly refers to here, we can still ask which are the relations among categories in the effects dimension.…”

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Metaphors of intersectionality: Reframing the debate with a new proposal

Rodó-Zárate

Jorba

2020

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Whereas intersectionality presents a fruitful framework for theoretical and empirical research, some of its fundamental features present great confusion. The term ‘intersectionality’ and its metaphor of the crossroads seem to reproduce what it aims to avoid: conceiving categories as separate. Despite the attempts for developing new metaphors that illustrate the mutual constitution relation among categories, gender, race or class keep being imagined as discrete units that intersect, mix or combine. Here we identify two main problems in metaphors: the lack of differentiation between positions and effects and the problem of reification. We then present a new metaphor that overcomes these two problems: a basket of apples. We argue that considering social positions as the diverse properties of different apples avoids reification by considering categories as properties and not as objects themselves, and at the same time it allows us to think about the effects dimension from a plural and contextual approach. With this shift, we propose a reframing of the discussion in debates on intersectionality theory on the relation among categories, their in/separability and fragmentation.

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Beyond Mutual Constitution: The Properties Framework for Intersectionality Studies

Cited by 19 publications

References 36 publications

The genomic footprint of social stratification in admixing American populations

The genomic footprint of social stratification in admixing American populations

Beyond the axes of inequality: Religion, race, and everything in between.

Metaphors of intersectionality: Reframing the debate with a new proposal

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