On the Depoliticisation of Intersectionality Talk: Conceptualising Multiple Oppressions in Critical Sexuality Studies

Erel, Umut; Haritaworn, Jin; Rodríguez, Encarnación Gutiérrez; Klesse, Christian

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“…Where people of color or race have been included, the model of inclusion was additive. We, therefore, suggests a more complex approach to thinking about race and race relations, one that considers the "interlocking" (Collins, 2003;Erel, Haritaworn, Rodriguez, & Klesse, 2010;Fellows & Razack, 1998;Razack, 1998) relationships of racism and other forms of oppression as a means of addressing the inequities experienced by LGBTQ people of color. Elaborating on our idea of the need for a creative way forward: It is critical that we acknowledge the importance of individual and collective activism as crucial to addressing the experiences of racism that were shared by participants in this study.…”

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Race Relations and Racism in the LGBTQ Community of Toronto: Perceptions of Gay and Queer Social Service Providers of Color

Giwa

Greensmith

2012

Journal of Homosexuality

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This article explores race relations and racism within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community of Toronto, Ontario, from the perspective of seven gay/queer social service providers of color. Social constructions of race, race relations, and racism were placed at the centre of analysis. Employing interpretive phenomenological analysis, findings indicated that intergroup and broader systemic racism infiltrates the LGBTQ community, rendering invisible the lived experiences of many LGBTQ people of color. The study contributes to a growing body of research concerning our understanding of factors underpinning social discrimination in a contemporary Canadian LGBTQ context.

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Race Relations and Racism in the LGBTQ Community of Toronto: Perceptions of Gay and Queer Social Service Providers of Color

Giwa

Greensmith

2012

Journal of Homosexuality

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“…While Kaleidoscope advocates a decolonization of law, and facilitates funding to enable southern activists to speak, it could do more to engage with critical decolonizing politics and strategies (Keucheyan, 2014, 20-24) However the mutual support and many shared human rights objectives between UK and international activists do need to be recognised. While the language invoked by many postcolonial queer theorists, of homonationalism (Puar, 2007), the 'gay international' (Massad, 2007) or neo-colonialism and neo-imperialism (Erel et al, 2008), has sensitized us to power relations, it is insufficient to capture this. It is thus high time for critical postcolonial queer theory to come to terms with human rights (Corrêa et al, 2008;Human Rights Watch, 2008) and with the North/South alliances central in transnational LGBTI movements.…”

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“…Returning to the debate between LGBTI progressives and postcolonial queers, the analysis indicates that Massad's (2007) Similarly, the most significant division found in transnational LGBTI activist discourse is between those who endorse LGBTI human rights primarily with reference to a normative universalism that can lack social contextualisation, and those who more systematically deploy framing (Lennox and Waites, 2013) especially by articulating human rights via intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989;Erel et al , 2008) and postcolonial/decolonizing politics (Said, 1978). Meanwhile, postcolonial 'connected sociologies' (Bhambra, 2014) lead us to attend to the creation of new social movement networks along old imperial lines, including online, and activist engagement with Commonwealth governance.…”

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“…The most prominent example is Jasbir Puar, author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, and originator of the concept homonationalism (Puar, 2007). Other examples are Massad's (2007) critique of the 'Gay International', or the work of Haritaworn and colleagues which for example critically developed Crenshaw's (1989) well known 'intersectionality' theory to address sexuality (Erel et al, 2008)(in the present article intersectionality is used in its broad sense of addressing multiple inequalities rather than more specific conceptualisations from Crenshaw). There are other variations, such as Rahman (2014) on 'homocolonialism', and impressive work of Rahul Rao problematising culturally essentialist western mappings of 'The Locations of Homophobia' (Rao, 2014).…”

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LGBTI organizations navigating imperial contexts: the Kaleidoscope Trust, the Commonwealth and the need for a decolonizing, intersectional politics

Waites

2017

The Sociological Review

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This article presents the first sustained social analysis of the Kaleidoscope Trust, the UK's leading social movement organization on LGBTI issues internationally, and its engagement with the Commonwealth -particularly through forming The Commonwealth Equality Network, comprising national NGOs. A contribution is made to sociological and critical analysis of transnational LGBTI movements, through argument for a new analytical framework combining the sociology of human rights with a decolonizing, intersectional approach -beyond the division between optimistic theories extending Western LGBTI progressive politics, or pessimistic postcolonial queer analyses. To investigate organizations' strategies leading to the Malta 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the research utilizes sources of data including event observation and website sources, initiating analysis of online environments. The analysis deploys social movement theory to examine how and why Kaleidoscope selected the Commonwealth as a political opportunity structure to engage through strategies of framing and articulation of human rights. Invention of The Commonwealth Equality Network, shaped online and offline by imperial relations between core and periphery, is analysed via transnational public sphere and critical theories and argued to indicate a significant restructuring of global queer politics. It is contended that a consistently decolonizing and intersectional articulation of human rights is needed.

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“…First, as marking a field of debate in which questions of racism and the position of black women can be raised, and in which there could be discussions of the way that 'identities' are formed, dissolved and reassembled in different contexts, 'performatively' we might say. Also of the way that different structural positions disclose different 'standpoints' on power, and the way that personal experience might or might not be a grounding for an alternative politics (Erel et al, 2011). In this way 'intersectionality' draws attention to the more extensive 'layout' of oppression, and has made discussion more fluid so new alliances might be formed (Puar, 2012).…”

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Politics and “Applied Psychology”? Theoretical Concepts that Question the Disciplinary Community

Parker

2015

Theory & Psychology

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This paper responds to a set of problems in contemporary psychology that cluster around the notion that the discipline might be 'applied' to the real world, and that such application would thereby serve as the methodological and conceptual grounding for 'political psychology'. The specific problems addressed comprise 'interpretation' of material in the quantitative and qualitative traditions, the notion of 'application' as such which rests on the prior modelling of individual and collective psychological phenomena, the conceptions of 'politics' that operate in disciplinary interventions, the idealisation of 'community' in different traditions of community psychology in the US and Europe, and finally 'psychology' itself as the background against which these other problems are elaborated. In response to these problems the paper describes political theoretical concepts from feminist interventions in Left practice and brings them to bear on the discipline of psychology, turning the direction of travel of concepts around so that psychology itself rather than the outside world becomes the object to which ideas are 'applied'. The five political theoretical concepts described here are 'performativity', 'standpoint', 'the personal as political', the 'tyranny of structurelessness' and 'intersectionality'.

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On the Depoliticisation of Intersectionality Talk: Conceptualising Multiple Oppressions in Critical Sexuality Studies

Cited by 73 publications

References 13 publications

Race Relations and Racism in the LGBTQ Community of Toronto: Perceptions of Gay and Queer Social Service Providers of Color

Race Relations and Racism in the LGBTQ Community of Toronto: Perceptions of Gay and Queer Social Service Providers of Color

LGBTI organizations navigating imperial contexts: the Kaleidoscope Trust, the Commonwealth and the need for a decolonizing, intersectional politics

Politics and “Applied Psychology”? Theoretical Concepts that Question the Disciplinary Community

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