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7. The Difference That Power Makes: Intersectionality and Participatory Democracy

verfasst von : Patricia Hill Collins

Erschienen in: The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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This essay explores how developing more complex analyses of power and politics sheds light on important themes for both intersectionality and participatory democracy. Drawn from intersectional inquiry, Part I, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Hypervisible Power and Invisible Politics,” outlines three focal points of a provisional power analytic: (1) how analyses of intersecting, structural oppressions underpin systems of domination; (2) how a domains-of-power framework provides a set of conceptual tools for analyzing and responding to intersecting power relations; and (3) how a more robust analysis of the collective illuminates the political action of subordinated groups. Part II, “Black Feminism, Flexible Solidarity and Intersectionality,” builds on this power analytic by examining power and politics from the standpoint of the resistance traditions of historically subordinated groups. By no means the only or universal case, African American women’s political action provides an alternative analysis of power and politics. Black feminism conceptualizes intersectionality and politics in flexible, pragmatic terms with an eye toward an overarching vision rather than in the static, ideological terms of political theory. It thus constitutes an important site for seeing the deepening commitment to participatory democracy as an alternative to technical agendas of the state. Part III, “The Difference That Power Makes: Implications for Intersectionality and Participatory Democracy,” discusses implications of intersectionality’s power analytic for projects for intersectionality and participatory democracy.

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At one point, a lively feminist literature engaged nationalism, examining topics such as how the public policies of nation-states were inherently intersectionality, and how the national identities of various nation-state relied on intersecting systems of power. With the emergence of post-structuralism and neoliberalism in the 1990s, scholars moved away from the literature on nationalism, especially its emphasis on state power. For a core text from this literature that took a structural approach to intersectionality and nationalism, see Anthias, Floya, and Nira Yuval-Davis. 1992. Racialized Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle. New York: Routledge.

I have published various of this heuristic, with minor revisions. Earlier versions stressed domination and oppression as themes, leaving less room for resistance. For example, the 1990s edition of Black Feminist Thought describes the cultural domain as the “hegemonic”. Yet the emergence of cultural studies that examines how culture constitutes an important site of political resistance highlighted my overemphasis on domination. Similarly, my term “interpersonal” aimed to express the dynamics of the social self within the context of community, yet the term “experiential” domain better captures my current thinking.

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Titel: The Difference That Power Makes: Intersectionality and Participatory Democracy
verfasst von: Patricia Hill Collins
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-98472-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-98473-5

Copyright-Jahr: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98473-5_7