Re-radicalising intersectionality in organisation studies

Liu, H

Re-radicalising intersectionality in organisation studies

Liu, H

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Publisher:: University of Leicester, University of Essex
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization, 2018, 18 (1), pp. 81 - 101
Issue Date:: 2018-02-01

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dc.contributor.author	Liu, H https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4211-0932	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-02-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization, 2018, 18 (1), pp. 81 - 101	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2052-1499	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	Although intersectionality emerged in the 1970s through the activism of Black feminists, its application to organisation studies in recent years has too often been deradicalised as a tool to collate and commodify differences. In this article, I propose that we need to re-radicalise intersectional theorising. I offer biography and history as two methodological tools with which we may fulfil intersectionality’s social justice aims. Biography compels researchers to align ourselves with the struggles of marginalised subjects. History asks us to locate our subjects in their specific histories of social injustice. It is my hope that through critical, reflexive theorising, we may protect the radical roots of intersectionality and guard against its co-optation into prevailing systems of white imperial power.	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Leicester, University of Essex	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization	en_US
dc.title	Re-radicalising intersectionality in organisation studies	en_US
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Abstract:

Although intersectionality emerged in the 1970s through the activism of Black feminists, its application to organisation studies in recent years has too often been deradicalised as a tool to collate and commodify differences. In this article, I propose that we need to re-radicalise intersectional theorising. I offer biography and history as two methodological tools with which we may fulfil intersectionality’s social justice aims. Biography compels researchers to align ourselves with the struggles of marginalised subjects. History asks us to locate our subjects in their specific histories of social injustice. It is my hope that through critical, reflexive theorising, we may protect the radical roots of intersectionality and guard against its co-optation into prevailing systems of white imperial power.

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