Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3950928
AutoresCharles Masquelier (0000-0003-1850-6731, University of Exeter, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen70
Número3
Páginas616-631
Fecha de publicación2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00380261221079115
OpenAlexW4214849586
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas37

Since intersectionality theory constitutes a critical assessment of the way the social world operates and strives for social justice, it entails an image of how the world is and how things could become. In this article a version of intersectionality with particularly strong counter-cultural tendencies is considered. Drawing on Ruth Levitas's approach to utopia as 'method', it makes explicit pluriversal intersectionality's utopian content. It is shown that the defining features of this intersectionality theory share an elective affinity with the principle of self-management lying at the core of the libertarian strand of socialist thought. But the utopia whose contours are drawn here is not expected to act as a blueprint. Instead, the article aspires to serve as an invitation to dialogue about the kind of future that could lie beyond intersectional oppression and, consequently, help consolidate pluriversal intersectionality's transformative potential

Aesthetics · Blueprint · Epistemology · Intersectionality · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformative learning · Utopia · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism