On violence, intersectionality and transversal politics
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- 5 June 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Vol. 40 (9), 1460-1473
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1317827
Abstract
The persistence of violence over the past several decades coupled with the explosive growth of intersectionality as a form of critical inquiry and praxis suggest that the connections between violence, intersecting power relations and political resistance remain highly salient. In this commentary, I ask, in what ways might continuing to focus on violence illuminate the connections between intersecting systems of power and on the contours of political resistance? To address this question, I revisit two themes in The Tie That Binds: Race, Gender and US Violence, namely, (1) how conceptualizing violence as a saturated site of intersecting power relations contributes to analyses of political domination and (2) how attending to the analyses and actions of African American women and similarly subordinated groups deepens understandings of flexible solidarity as a core feature of transversal politics.Keywords
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