{"product_id":"intersectionality-origins-contestations-horizons-9781496212481","title":"Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eIntersectionality\u003c\/em\u003e intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people's lives. While \"intersectionality\" tends to circulate merely as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices in urging a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to \"go beyond\" intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorical purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw's germinal texts, published more than twenty-five years ago, Carastathis urges analytic clarity, contextual rigor, and a politicized, historicized understanding of this pervasive concept. Intersectionality's roots in social justice movements and critical intellectual projects--specifically black feminism--must be retraced and synthesized with a decolonial analysis so that its potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnna Carastathis \u003c\/strong\u003eis a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University in Athens, Greece. She coedited an issue of \u003cem\u003eRefuge\u003c\/em\u003e journal titled \"Intersectional Feminist Interventions in the 'Refugee Crisis.'\" She has published work in \u003cem\u003eHypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy Compass\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWhy Race and Gender Still Matter: An Intersectional Approach\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Carastathis\u003c\/b\u003e is the codirector of the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research in Athens, Greece, where she coordinates the research area, Intersectionality: Critiques of Power and Coalitional Politics. Carastathis is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eReproducing Refugees: Photographìa of a Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50339079061778,"sku":"9781496212481","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c2f0e03-6161-4e6e-a810-86c801ec30fd.jpg?v=1727995243","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/intersectionality-origins-contestations-horizons-9781496212481","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}