Abstract

The thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Crenshaw’s (1989, 1991) seminal texts presents us with a commemorative moment for the concept of intersectionality and its journey within academia and beyond. I argue in this paper, that intersectionality can be and must be put to more imaginative use in spatio-temporal settings that are far-removed from its moment and place of inception. Through autoethnographic narratives I proposed in this paper, that i) as opposed to claims of overuse and loss of meaning, there remains untapped potential in the concept of intersectionality as a methodological device ii) that this device is particularly well-suited for scholars representing marginalized and minoritized social locations within the global academy and iii) a geographical approach of emplacement can serve to enrich intersectional analysis within feminist geography and beyond. This entails attending to fields of power that are contextual and place-based, and that have not featured commonly in existing intersectionality scholarship.

摘要

克伦肖 (1989, 1991) 的开创性著作出版三十周年为我们提供了一个纪念交叉性概念及其在学术界内外的旅程的时刻。我在本文中认为，交叉性可以而且必须在远离其开始的时刻和地点的时空环境中被更具想象力地使用。通过我在本文中提出的自我民族志叙述，i) 与过度使用和失去意义的主张相反，交叉性概念作为一种方法学手段仍有未开发的潜力 ii) 这种手段特别适合代表边缘化的学者和在全球学院内少数化的社会位置和 iii)就职的地理方法可以用来丰富女权主义地理学内外的交叉分析。这需要关注基于上下文和基于地点的权力领域，并且在现有的交叉性学术研究中并不常见。