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SUMMARY:Intersectionality and morphogenetic/relational approach: some prel
 iminary considerations
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Isabella Crespi (University of Macerata & Centre d'Ontologie 
 Sociale de l'EPFL)\nThe Brownbag Ontology Workshop of Lausanne will hold i
 ts 3rd monthly meeting on Wednesday 25th April from 12h15 until 13h45.\n\
 nSandwiches and soft drinks will be available.\n\nAbstract: The concept of
  intersectionality (Crenshaw 1989\; McCall 2005\, Walby 2007)\, originatin
 g from black feminist theory\, has become within the last decade a broad i
 nterdisciplinary heuristics for analyzing interlocking social divisions: r
 ace\, class\, gender and other differences are no longer seen in isolation
  or in cumulative models but in their mutual constitution and complex enta
 nglements\, especially looking at the migration processes and changing gen
 der roles. It has been recognized as a critical tool that addresses the sh
 ortcomings of identity-based theories and advocates new avenues for empiri
 cal or quantitative research within politics\, seeing intersectionality no
 t only as a powerful normative theoretical argument but also as an approac
 h to conducting empirical research that “emphasizes the interaction of c
 ategories of difference” (Hancock 2007\, 63). This heuristics suggests t
 hat—and seeks to examine how—various socially and culturally construct
 ed categories such as gender\, race\, class\, disability\, and other axes 
 of identity interact on multiple and often simultaneous levels\, contribut
 ing to systematic social inequality (Shields 2008\; Alcoff 2006\; Nash 200
 8). Intersectionality as an approach\, in contrast with unitary and multip
 le research approaches\, recognizes that categories matter equally but doe
 s not determine a priori the relationship between these competing/compleme
 nting categories. Furthermore it recognizes that these categories are not 
 static but that a dynamic interaction between individual and institutional
  factors is at play\, a relation between structure\, agency and reflexivit
 y (Archer 2003\, 2010). Surely\, to adopt an intersectionality perspective
  allows a deeper way of analyzing different aspects taking in account soci
 al complexities of new life trajectories in the experience of people (migr
 ants\, transnational families\, work-family balance\, and so on). Neverthe
 less\, difficulties arise due to the many complexities involved in making 
 "multidimensional conceptualizations“ (Browne and Misra 2007) that expla
 in the way in which socially constructed categories of differentiation int
 eract to create a social hierarchy. In my project the theoretical aim is t
 o evaluate the possible connections among critical realism\, morphogenetic
  and relational sociological approaches and the intersectionality perspect
 ive especially in order to improve and to better explain in the latter per
 spective the hidden relevance of social differentiation\, identity politic
 s\, agency and reflexivity.
LOCATION:EPFL\, room GCB 330
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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