Peut-on faire de l'intersectionnalité sans les ex-colonisé-e-s ?

Abstract

Résumé La réception en France du Black feminism , accompagné des études de l’intersectionnalite et de l’imbrication des rapports de pouvoir, a créé un nouvel espace critique de référence dans la recherche universitaire française mais on y reproduit souvent une forte coupure entre théorie et action, puisque les travaux français ou francophones sur le racisme, les migrations, la colonisation, et les luttes de minoritaires, y sont marginalisés. Cette coupure inhibe la déconstruction des discours et pratiques ethnocentristes, masculines, hétéronormatives et élitistes locales, et invisibilise les savoirs des minoritaires ex-colonisé-e-s.

Intersectionality Undone

“…A third contradiction emerges when the analytic complexity of intersectionality is treated simplistically, rather than as a tool that does not serve the same purpose in different hands. One form this contradiction takes is to extract intersectionality from its acknowledgement of standpoint theory and its attendant critique of hegemonic understandings of scientific knowledge, distorting and misrepresenting intersectionality as an “objective” analytical tool (see Ait Ben Lmadani and Moujoud (2012) for a discussion of this with regard to the French academy). But careful intersectional thinking must always account for different meanings, purposes, and audiences.…”

“…Similar discourses are found elsewhere in Europe, for instance in France. Recent work produced in France by postcolonial/decolonial scholars such as Fatima Ait Ben Lmadani and Nasima Moujoud (2012), and Houria Bouteldja (2013) indicate that similar forces and rationales are at play. Postcolonial scholars and activists strive to articulate crucial critiques of hegemonic feminism as well as other disciplines and fields dealing with “minority issues.” Despite constant delegitimation, they argue that settings presented as progressive can be oppressive and discriminatory for racialized scholars.…”

Uma análise do discurso contra-hegemônica. Interseccionalidade crítica e pluriversalidade decolonial

“…Nesses artigos, ela responde à invisibilização das mulheres negras no feminismo branco estadunidense na época, e explica que as opressões de gênero e raciais estão entrelaçadas e se modificam mutuamente. Essa versão de interseccionalidade encontra suas origens na questão da raça, que seus desenvolvimentos na pesquisa feminista europeia apagaram um pouco (BILGE, 2015;2016, FASSA;ROCA I ESCODA, 2015;LMADANI;MOUJOUD, 2012). As críticas são rapidamente dirigidas à noção: a natureza indefinida da categoria (conceito, teoria, ferramenta, metodologia); seus aspectos complexos e acadêmicos ao serviço das práticas de luta; o aspecto mecanicista da soma das opressões; o risco de reconduzir categorias opressivas de forma essencialista; o enfraquecimento da noção na promoção das subjetividades.…”

The Scandal of Women’s Emancipation. Femonationalism, Right-Wing Sexual Politics, and Anti-Feminism

“…Intersectionality echoes earlier feminist interventions like the publication "All women are white, all Blacks are men, but some of us are brave" (Smith, Hull, and Bell-Scott 2015). It has become a key concept in gender studies even though some have criticized racism in its traveling process to European countries (Ait Ben Lmadani and Moujoud 2012). Applied to femonationalism, intersectionality helps to point out the theoretical production of blind spots: in Farris' view all (children of) migrants are heterosexual and aspire to build heteropatriarchal families; all white Europeans are queer or queerfriendly and fight for women's emancipation.…”