“…Intersectionality theorists highlight and recognize these multiple identities at stake in social situations through the interweaving of different categories (Collins, 2009; Lutz et al, 2011). The theory assumes that identities interact in many and often simultaneous ways, contributing to a systematic social inequality.…”
Emotions constitute an integrated part of crime trials, but the evaluation of these emotions is dependent on broader cultural norms rarely addressed by legal practitioners. Previous research on emotions in the judiciary has also tended to underemphasize this cultural dimension of judges’ assessment of defendants’ emotional expressions. This article presents an ethnographic study of Danish judges’ considerations when they encounter defendants in court and get an impression of their behaviour, emotional state and physical appearance. Combining theories about emotions with intersectionality approaches, the article highlights the processes in which social categories are dynamically shaped through emotions. Judges’ assessments of emotions are mediated through their own cultural understandings, and what counts as ‘appropriate’ emotion is dependent on how the defendant is culturally and systemically situated.
“…Intersectionality theorists highlight and recognize these multiple identities at stake in social situations through the interweaving of different categories (Collins, 2009; Lutz et al, 2011). The theory assumes that identities interact in many and often simultaneous ways, contributing to a systematic social inequality.…”
Emotions constitute an integrated part of crime trials, but the evaluation of these emotions is dependent on broader cultural norms rarely addressed by legal practitioners. Previous research on emotions in the judiciary has also tended to underemphasize this cultural dimension of judges’ assessment of defendants’ emotional expressions. This article presents an ethnographic study of Danish judges’ considerations when they encounter defendants in court and get an impression of their behaviour, emotional state and physical appearance. Combining theories about emotions with intersectionality approaches, the article highlights the processes in which social categories are dynamically shaped through emotions. Judges’ assessments of emotions are mediated through their own cultural understandings, and what counts as ‘appropriate’ emotion is dependent on how the defendant is culturally and systemically situated.
“…3 | Wobei eine vollständige Abbildung der ausdifferenzierten Intersektionalitätsdiskussion im Rahmen dieser Arbeit nicht geleistet werden kann. Einen Überblick über die internationale Diskussion bieten Lutz et al (2010). 4 | Der Begriff der Intersektionalität geht auf die US-amerikanische Juristin Kimberlé Crenshaw zurück, die ihn in den 1980er-Jahren im Kontext des Black Feminism eingeführt hatte.…”
Section: Der Intersektionalitätsdiskurs -Ein üBerblickunclassified
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“…The organizers of the conference Celebrating Intersectionality? set forth their task as “looking back at the early stages of the debate about intersectionality with the intention of making visible research from those early days that is usually neglected in the current debate” (Lutz et al, 2011, p. 1). Such apparently generous moves are always in the service of contemporary structures of academic power.…”
Section: The Whitening Of Intersectionalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The kinds of argumentative strategies I discuss in this article featured prominently at an important international conference, Celebrating Intersectionality? held in Frankfort in 2009 (see Lutz, Vivar, and Supik 2011). 5 The comments of Kimberlé Crenshaw (2011) in response to the conference reflect some of the divergent priorities and sensibilities when intersectionality travels from one context to the other.…”
Section: Depoliticizing Intersectionality Through Metatheoretical Musmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 5 Arguments about the conference that appear throughout this article are based on the co-edited conference proceedings (Lutz et al, 2011), other accounts (Lewis 2009, 2013; Petzen 2012), and audio recordings of presentations, in particular those of Helma Lutz, Nina Lykke and Cornelia Klinger (, accessed August 21, 2012).…”
This article identifies a set of power relations within contemporary feminist academic debates on intersectionality that work to “depoliticizing intersectionality,” neutralizing the critical potential of intersectionality for social justice-oriented change. At a time when intersectionality has received unprecedented international acclaim within feminist academic circles, a specifically disciplinary academic feminism in tune with the neoliberal knowledge economy engages in argumentative practices that reframe and undermine it. This article analyzes several specific trends in debate that neutralize the political potential of intersectionality, such as confining intersectionality to an academic exercise of metatheoretical contemplation, as well as “whitening intersectionality” through claims that intersectionality is “the brainchild of feminism” and requires a reformulated “broader genealogy of intersectionality.”
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