Visual Turn in Intersectionality Research. On the Demand for a New Attention to the ‘Seeing’ of Difference

Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Magdalena Nowicka, Tiara Roxanne: Andere Sichtweisen auf Intersektionalität. Revisualising Intersectionality. Springer VS. 2023

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https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2024.300

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Anti-Discrimination, Intersectionality, Theory, Methodology

Abstract

In their transdisciplinary book, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Magdalena Nowicka and Tiara Roxanne draw on the primacy of ‘seeing’ and its equation with knowledge in Western cultures. The authors are particularly interested in the significance of seeing for the racialization, gendering and sexualization of bodies. To this end, they utilize findings from disciplines such as cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, visual culture studies, and artistic research. Difference and social categories, as well as their intersectional linkage in power relations, are presented as culturally predisposed. The illustrative examples mainly stem from migration and racism studies as well as queer and trans studies, but unfortunately, rarely from gender studies. The book concludes with a plea for a visual turn in intersectionality research through transdisciplinary dialogue and with the help of new methods that have yet to be developed.

Author Biography

Heike Kahlert, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Dr Heike Kahlert is Professor of Sociology/Social Inequality and Gender at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and an affiliated member of the Center for Feminist Social Studies (CFS) at Örebro University in Sweden. Her research focuses on gender relations and social change in welfare societies, reflexivity, critique and revision of knowledge in modernity, institutionalized inequalities in education and work, and equality-related organizational development in the public-profit sector.

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2024-09-30

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Kahlert, H. (2024). Visual Turn in Intersectionality Research. On the Demand for a New Attention to the ‘Seeing’ of Difference: Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Magdalena Nowicka, Tiara Roxanne: Andere Sichtweisen auf Intersektionalität. Revisualising Intersectionality. Springer VS. 2023. Open Gender Journal, 8. https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2024.300

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Vol. 8 (2024): Open Gender Journal

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