Intersectionality challenges for the co-production of urban services: notes for a theoretical and methodological agenda
- 10 August 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Urbanization
- Vol. 30 (2), 367-386
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247818790208
Abstract
The co-production of urban services, such as water, energy or sanitation, is a vital tool to advance service delivery and to challenge socioeconomic structures that reproduce urban inequalities. This article examines the crossovers between debates on intersectionality and the co-production of urban services. Intersectionality is a critical lens for an engaged critique of the dynamics of exclusion that may challenge service co-production. The paper draws attention to three key insights: 1) the need for an explicit questioning of processes to define vulnerability, particularly when they rely on bounded, fixed identity categories; 2) a recognition of the complex and multiple lived experiences of inequality and marginalization in any given context; and 3) a conceptualization of social identity as constituted through dynamic processes and always open to revision.Keywords
Funding Information
- British Academy (Intersectionality challenges in urban service prov)
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