Unsafe Travel: Experiencing Intersectionality and Feminist Displacements

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Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas

“…Yet reducing race to a descriptive identity category that is important to racial/ethnic minorities but not to mainstream scholarship leaves intersectional scholarship that privileges class incomplete. Elevating intersectionality sans race as a more theoretical and therefore preferred discourse on inequality erases racism, displacing its effects onto the United States, South Africa, and similar color-conscious racial formations (Lewis 2013).…”

Political Intersectionality within the SpanishIndignadosSocial Movement

“…Likewise, authors such as Lewis (2013), Bilge (2013), or Walby, Armstrong, andStrid (2012) coincide regarding the need to ensure that certain inequality dimensions are not systematically displaced. This occurs generally with class (Walby et al, 2012), for example, or with race in studies from Europe (Lewis, 2013). In keeping with these ideas, we explain in the "Methodology" section of the present work how inequality dimensions were selected for analysis of the Indignados movement.…”

Social geography I: Intersectionality

“…Despite these criticisms, intersectionality is referred to regularly and is familiar to many social science disciplines, including geography. Cho et al (2013: 785) note that there is 'a burgeoning field of intersectional studies ' and Hancock (2016: 12) expresses concern about 'intersectionality's travel (both geographic and disciplinary) as replicating the very hegemonic politics that intersectionality was created to fight against' (see also Carbado, 2013;Lewis, 2013). I am sensitive to Hancock's (2016: 23) discussion of 'an interpretive community' which has been 'entrusted with the care of such a precious and complicated phenomenon like intersectionality'; geographers are permitted to use intersectionality but must do so ethically and with care.…”