Epilogos. Transforming Places

This concluding chapter deals with dilemmas of theory and politics, considering further some of the problems of theorising, and engaging with a politics of translocation as a way of thinking with translocational belonging in resistance and solidarity politics. It locates, firstly, the main dimensions of the argument of the book and its theoretical thrust. It then looks at the political potential of an intersectionally inflected approach. Intersectionality has produced critiques and backlashes concerning its potential ‘whitening’, neo-liberal agenda, policy framing, its individualisation of difference, and claims and counterclaims about its origins. There is therefore the issue of the form of politics which it fosters, whether it be identity politics or solidarity politics which are discussed and which the chapter does not see as always incompatible. The chapter provides some provisional reflections on how we might pursue a ‘politics of translocation’ which has direct relevance to the issue of the politics of intersectionalit

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