Dealing with structural crises: intersectional approaches and practices

Abstract

In the current political context characterized by multiple crises from climate and humanitarian crises to the most recent COVID-19 pandemic, intersectionality researchers explore the historical and structural interrelatedness of distinct social crises and also explore emerging forms of intersectional politics and alliances to address and overcome these crises. The panel brings together papers which explore how a “crisis” is discursively constructed and whose crisis counts, work out the transformative potential of intersectionality as political practice under the conditions of capitalist, patriarchal, and colonial oppression and make a case for bringing together distinct yet interrelated societal struggles organized around the issues of care, labor, economy, and ecology. Taken together, they provide an intersectional critique of mainstream accounts of “crisis” which often takes the experiences of privileged social groups as a point of departure for crisis management and show that taking the experiences of multiply marginalized groups’ experiences to tackle structural crises exhibits greater transformative potential.

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