Intersectionality and Social Inequality Research Papers

Depuis octobre 2017, Humanité & Inclusion (HI) a initié un projet d’éducation inclusive au Sahel avec pour but de contribuer à une éducation inclusive de qualité pour les filles et les garçons marginalisés au Burkina Faso, au Mali et au Niger avec le co-financement de NORAD et l’AFD.
Les filles handicapées comptent parmi les groupes les plus marginalisés de la société, en raison des normes sociales et des préjugés culturels liés au genre et au handicap. Pourtant, il existe peu d’études permettant de documenter leur situation et les difficultés spécifiques qu’elles rencontrent. C’est pourquoi, cette étude adopte une approche intersectionnelle afin de penser et d’analyser la situation des filles handicapées en combinant les effets et dynamiques de plusieurs facteurs de vulnérabilité. En effet, en utilisant le prisme des analyses de genre et de l’approche sociale du handicap, cette étude fait clairement apparaître que les filles handicapées sont concernées par la pluralité et l’articulation de systèmes de domination sociale fondés sur le genre et sur le handicap. Elles expérimentent une oppression spécifique déterminée par leur identité indissociable de filles et de personnes handicapées. Cette condition se manifeste dans toutes les sphères, publiques et privées, si bien que les filles handicapées sont exposées à des inégalités spécifiques par rapport aux garçons handicapés ainsi qu’aux filles non handicapées dans l’accès à l’éducation, à la formation, aux soins de santé entre autres.
Les résultats de l’étude serviront d’une part, à orienter l'intervention de HI et de ses partenaires dans le domaine de l’éducation, et d’autre part, de plaidoyer. Les messages clés issus de l’étude seront partagés avec des décideurs, les acteurs de la société civile et les donateurs pour les sensibiliser sur l’importance de développer des interventions d’éducation inclusive sensibles au genre.
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This paper explores the way in which feminism, whilst trying to achieve gender equality, has increased inequality between women. It locates the cause of this in feminism's early adoption of Marxist and Engelsian thought and the way in... more

- by Belinda Brown
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- Political Sociology, Gender Studies, Men's Studies, Feminist Theory

What does the development of a truly robust contemporary theory of domination require? Ashley J. Bohrer argues that it is only by considering all of the dimensions of race, gender, sexuality, and ability within the structures of capitalism and imperialism that we can understand power relations as we find them nowadays. Bohrer explains how many of the purported incompatibilities between Marxism and intersectionality arise more from miscommunication rather than a fundamental conceptual antagonism. As the first monograph entirely devoted to this issue, "Marxism and Intersectionality" serves as a tool to activists and academics working against multiple systems of domination, exploitation, and oppression.

- by Ashley Bohrer
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- Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, Marxism, Queer Theory

South Asia is a region with unity in diversity, having at least twenty different dominant languages and over two hundred basic dialects. And yet, most of South Asia continues to remain economically poor and "developing" with gender disparity remaining a real concern at the heart of South Asian unity. The 2019 Global Hunger Index ranks all the major South Asian countries in the "serious" category with Sri Lanka coming in 66th, Nepal 73rd, Bangladesh 88th, Pakistan 94th, and India 102nd out of 117 countries. Women suffer the most, as they have to bear the direct burden of gender inequality and, as a consequence, children experience malnutrition. The 2018 Global Nutrition Report states that on average 49 percent of reproductive-age women in South Asia have anemia, and the prevalence of stunting in the population of children under-five is 32.7 percent, which is significantly greater than the global average of 21.9 percent. There is no data available for those who identify as nonbinary, and there is a long way to go before the data gap can be filled despite the official recognition of "third" gender people in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. Ironically, in spite of the official recognition of a nonheteronormative gender identity, homosexuality has yet to be decriminalized in most of South Asia with the exception of Nepal and India, having decriminalized homosexuality in 2007 and 2018, respectively. To read more: https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/genderedlives/chapter/chapter-3-introducing-the-region/

- by Ina Goel
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- Anthropology, Feminist Theory, Ethnography, Gender History

The research on which this study reports was informed by the following questions: Do Black gay men identify more closely with a racial identity or with a sexual identity? What experiences influence the saliency of a racial or sexual identity for Black gay men? How do Black gay men use daily interactions to inform a sense of self? Essentially, how do Black gay men negotiate stigmatized identities? Based on 50 in-depth interviews with self-identified Black gay men, the author highlights three emergent models of identity negotiations: interlocking identities, up–down identities, and public–private identities. Identifying the strategies Black gay men use to understand both themselves and the larger Black and gay communities helps illuminate the diversity within those communities and highlights the ways in which individuals who find themselves at the intersections of racial and sexual stigma understand themselves and the larger communities to which they belong.

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- by Shruti Chaudhry
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- Southeast Asian Studies, Ethnography, Poverty, Gender

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- by Alexandre Baril
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- French Literature, Queer Studies, French Studies, Disability Studies

Las historias de estas mujeres nos interpelan a partir de su derecho y su capacidad de autorepresentarse, no como adalides de las luchas de las mujeres negras colombianas en general, sino como subjetividades y trayectorias encarnadas de tensiones, ambigüedades, contradicciones y zonas grises presentes en las reconstrucciones de sus biografías. Con este libro comprendemos que autorepresentarnos como mujeres negras es oponernos a la imposición de un relato nacional que ignora o estereotipa nuestras actuaciones y producciones culturales. Autorepresentarnos es crear y recrear −desde nuestras propias identificaciones y con nuestros propios recursos estéticos e intelectuales− la historia y la cultura negras colombianas en toda su polifonía; es hacer uso de nuestra agencia subjetiva para adquirir existencia política y cultural como mujeres negras, en toda nuestra diversidad, dentro de la sociedad colombiana.

I met Kimberlé Crenshaw at the Sorbonne University in Paris in January 2019, at a conference organized by Marta Dell’Aquila and Eraldo Souza dos Santos to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of intersectionality. Kimberly Crenshaw developed the notion of intersectionality in 1989 in her paper “De-marginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Anti-discrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics”. On that occasion, her goal was to challenge the limitations of anti-discrimination laws that looked at gender and race as separated and mutually exclusive categories. Over the past thirty years, intersectionality has become an essential analytical tool to explore how multiple structures of oppression shape individual vulnerability. In this interview, Kimberlé Crenshaw offers not only a crash course in intersectionality for our readers, but tells us why intersectionality is vital to transform the current political situation. In a majestic example of theoretical sophistication and simplicity, Crenshaw uses the notion of intersectional failure to explain the election of Donald Trump. It is not simply the resentment of a white working class that feels “left behind” which explains the electoral triumph of the far right, she argues. It is working class resentment rooted in male entitlement and white supremacy, which determines this victory. In this sense, the triumph of the far-right in countries such the United States or Italy that have an un-resolved history of white supremacy and fascism, can be seen as the result of a number of intersectional failures – when class consciousness doesn’t contest the logics of racism, when anti-racism doesn’t contest the logics of patriarchy, when feminism doesn’t contest the logic of racism, they end up reinforcing them all.

- by Francesca Coin
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- Critical Race Studies, Race and Racism, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity

Socioeconomic inequality is a given; its scope varies from country to country and from time to
time. In democratic countries, increasing the prospect of social mobility for those born into low
socioeconomic circumstances is considered a worthy goal. The education system is perceived
to be a key policy tool for reducing disparities in opportunity. In recent years, there has been
a discernible rise in income disparity and in parallel, a rising gap in educational opportunities.
Understanding these mechanisms’ reciprocal influences is important for determining effective
policy.
The Spencer and the Russell Sage Foundations in the United States studied a range of issues
within the context of inequality and education. The rich findings were assembled in a volume
published in 2011, entitled Whither Opportunity: Rising Inequality, Schools and Children’s Life
Chances, which suggest possible explanations for the increasing impact of economic disparity on
the academic achievement gaps in the US.
Inspired by the above study and with encouragement from those responsible for the US project,
the aim of the Initiative activity was to delineate an evidence-based framework for policymakers
to understand the relationships between socioeconomic inequality and educational opportunities
and achievements in Israel and how these are distributed across the population1. Another objective
was to provide information for public and professional discourse on this topic. A steering team
comprised of researchers from the fields of sociology, education, economics and welfare guided
the activity.

Disability studies and critical trauma studies are both deeply concerned with the social construction of meaning and identity. However, these disciplines often remain mutually disengaged, inadvertently overlooking shared mechanisms of oppression that foster stigma. This article explores the novel depiction of disability and trauma in the play Amy and the Orphans by Lindsey Ferrentino. Amy, a character with Down syndrome, challenges disability stereotypes by exercising autonomy; she is not solely defined by her disability or her experiences of abuse. The theatrical narrative is one of both disability and trauma, encouraging a nuanced reflection on the origins of stigma and revealing how theatre can be used as a tool of resistance to reclaim agency through performances that challenge conventional 'disability' stereotypes.

- by Josephine Barnett
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- Medical Sociology, Media Studies, Theatre Studies, Self and Identity

Intersectionality has increasing traction in interdisciplinary inquiry, yet questions remain about qualitative intersectional methods. In particular, scholars have yet to consider how to write qualitative research in the service of intersectionality. Drawing upon my disciplinary training in communication studies, I argue that the field’s theoretical grounding offers useful resources for advancing intersectional writing. Because communication theory posits that symbols both reflect and make reality, it resonates with an intersectional desire to simultaneously describe and transform the world through critical analysis. Using exemplars from communication scholars, I highlight how this interplay of approaches can advance identity politics and trouble identity categories. Furthermore this approach can help qualitative writers to link what some perceive to be distinct ‘levels’ of analysis. By discussing techniques for coupling reflexivity and voice, I make communication theory intelligible for intersectional writing and also invite communication studies to become more intersectional.

Purpose – There is much scientific interest in the connection between the emergence of gender-based inequalities and key biographical transition points of couples in long-term relationships. Little empirical research is available comparing the evolution of a couple’s respective professional careers over space and time. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to filling this gap by addressing the following questions: what are the critical biographical moments when gender (in)equalities within a relationship begin to arise and consolidate? Which biographical decisions precede and follow such critical moments? How does decision making at critical moments impact the opportunities of both relationship partners in gaining equal access to paid employment? Design/methodology/approach – These questions are addressed from the perspectives of intersectionality and economic citizenship. Biographical interviewing is used to collect the personal and professional narratives of Swiss-, bi-nation...

- by Katharina Limacher
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- Sociology, Gender Studies, Gender Equality, Employment

The article discusses the multiple discrimination, normalization and stigmatization experienced by deaf LGBT youth in Sicily, Italy, on the basis of a study of their everyday life (specifically school years and peer interactions). So far in Italy, very little attention has been paid to multiple discrimination and, specifically, to homophobic violence towards disabled individuals. It is, therefore, impossible to consider any valid sampling of the desired population and very few reports have been produced. The authors, a sociologist and a psychologist, carry out an analysis of the results obtained from interviews with 15 LGBT individuals recruited through social networks, thematic chats, and associations. This preliminary analysis aims at identifying the key arguments which could form the basis for future strategic inclusion programs and further research projects.

- by Cirus Rinaldi
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- Queer Studies, Art, Deaf Culture, Deaf studies

This study of a Northeastern alternative high school examines the salience of two discourses-one focused on students who have problems, the other on students who are problems-in the alternative schooling process. At Cromwell Alternative North (CAN), teachers and staff promoted a view of students as youth with "special needs." In the students' social world, having "special needs" was not awarded status like being a troublemaker was. Students at CAN therefore had to manage both discourses in their daily interaction with teachers and peers. Some students accepted special needs rhetoric, some rejected it. Most attempted to manage it creatively, being a problem in the eyes of peers and having problems in the eyes of teachers. Code switching between the two discourses, however, was not something all students could do. A handful of students-"shining stars"-managed both "SPED," slang for special education students, and "bad" discourses to achieve the greatest social and academic successes at CAN.

Intersectionality: Foundations and Frontiers is an accessible, primary source-driven exploration of intersectionality in sociology, psychology, women’s and gender studies, and related fields. The book maps the origins of the concept, particularly in Black feminist thought, opens the discourse to challenges and applications across disciplines and outside academia, and explores the leading edges of scholarship to reveal important new directions for inquiry and activism. Charting the development of intersectionality as an intellectual and political movement, Patrick R. Grzanka brings together in one text both foundational readings and emerging classics. The completely revised and expanded second edition includes 17 new readings, including an original essay by Lisa Bowleg on the urgency of intersectionality in contemporary politics.

- by Patrick R Grzanka
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- Critical Theory, Sociology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Despite increasing numbers of vacancies for highly skilled jobs in innovative sectors of the economy, highly skilled migrants are often discriminated against despite their qualifications. This discrimination represents a relevant issue, especially for women with a background in male-dominated and highly regulated fields, such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). We draw on qualitative data collected in Northern Italy from in-depth interviews and focus groups with women from different countries and STEMM qualifications. Adopting an intersectionality approach, we illuminate the macro-, organizational-, and individual-level barriers that prevent highly skilled migrant women from finding a job that measures up to their qualification level and sector, and we highlight the resources available to them to overcome these barriers. By emphasizing the intersectional ties of being a woman, a migrant, and a STEMM professional, we identify relevant areas for policy intervention to valorize migration in support of innovation and labor outcomes in Italy and in other countries.

Research report on experiences with structural racism commissioned by the Municipality of Bergen

- by Sindre Bangstad and +1
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- Sociology, Media Studies, Social Sciences, Race and Racism

Intersectional analysis attempts to more adequately theorize how social divisions (of ethnicity/race, class, gender, sexuality, age, etc.) interact and affect each other, without reducing one to another. “Triad analytics” is introduced here to emphasize affective investments and the mutual constitution of subject formation (who we are), cultural concepts (how we think), and embodied practices (what we do). I argue that pervasive gender coding privileges not only (some) men but also subjectivities, conceptual frames, and embodied activities that are characterized as masculine. These analytical starting points are used to explore RGC and S in colonial and contemporary contexts of militarization and war. The process reveals how “official war stories” do political work with material consequences: constructing enemy “others,” legitimating calls to war, justifying extremes of violence, and normalizing RGC and S forms of subjection.

- by Xavier Rambla
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- Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies, Social Policy, Globalization

Offers a fundamental model of intersectionality, and applies it to complex consciousness. Class in an abstract sense is the relationship through which labor is mobilized into specific relations of production, But the means through which such labor is categorized and mobilized is historically diverse, and includes nationality/citizenship, race, gender, class in a more superficial sense, and so forth. Thus, class in the setting of the U.S. southwest is enacted through race (Mexican/Anglo) and more recently nationality/immigration status (citizenship). This helps to understand empirical material that borderlanders (most but not all U.S.-side in origin) tend to merge their class understandings of the border into a discourse of labor and poverty being Mexican (as previously documented by Pablo Vila). Yet they do have some penetrations of deep class processes. The notion of a simultaneous view of abstract labor mobilization (abstract class) and empirical, social organization of such labor (surface inequalities) thus enriches the study of intersectionality and consciousness.

- by Josiah Heyman
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- Latino/A Studies, Marxism, Border Studies, Class

Stigmas, or discredited personal attributes, emanate from social perceptions of physical characteristics, aspects of character, and “tribal” associations (e.g., race; Goffman 1963 ). Extant research has emphasized the perspective of the stigma target, with some scholars exploring how social institutions shape stigma. Yet the ways stakeholders within the sociocommercial sphere create, perpetuate, or resist stigma remain overlooked. The authors introduce and define marketplace stigma as the labeling, stereotyping, and devaluation by and of commercial stakeholders (consumers, companies and their employees, stockholders, and institutions) and their offerings (products, services, and experiences). The authors offer the Stigma Turbine as a unifying conceptual framework that locates marketplace stigma within the broader sociocultural context and illuminates its relationship to forces that exacerbate or blunt stigma. In unpacking the Stigma Turbine, the authors reveal the critical role that...

- by Cornelia Otnes
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- Stigma, Stereotypes, Discrimination, Intersectionality and Social Inequality

This resource guide provides information, advice, considerations, and reference materials for the inclusion and protection of the Trans*, Non-Binary, and Gender Non-Conforming community in higher education. The guide is based, in part, on... more

- by Chris Chevallier, PhD and +1
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- Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Diversity, Higher Education

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Un equipo de FEM y de la comunidad de Sincerin realizaron una encuesta censal asistida por Kobotoolbox y financiada por SELAVIP.

La educación y las dimensiones del desarrollo humano en América Latina /X. RAMBLA et al. Resumen La comunicación analiza varias dimensiones del desarrollo humano en América Latina. En primer lugar, las teorías normativas de la justicia social sugieren que las evaluaciones de las políticas públicas se apoyen en los datos sobre escolarización y rendimiento académico, de igual modo que contextualicen sus conclusiones en los análisis correspondientes de las privaciones materiales. En segundo lugar, se han observado varias interacciones entre la carencia de educación, la pobreza de ingreso, la salud frágil, las condiciones de vivienda insalubres y la inseguridad. Por último, el acaparamiento de oportunidades es el mecanismo causal de las desigualdades sociales que se ha convertido en el mayor obstáculo para el desarrollo educativo de la región.

- by Xavier Rambla
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- Sociology, Demography, Humanities, Poverty

Pour la première fois, une publication en français invite le public à s’immerger dans un univers cinématographique aussi riche que varié et original. Cet ouvrage collectif sur les cinémas autochtones s’affranchit tout autant des frontières chronologiques, géographiques (que ce soit pour la provenance des articles publiés ou des sujets traités) que des genres afin de célébrer ensemble le pouvoir des créateur·trice·s cinématographiques autochtones d’hier, d’aujourd’hui et de demain !

This article utilizes the lens of disposability to explore recent conditions of low-wage temporary migrant labour, whose numbers and economic sectors have expanded in the 21 st century. A central argument is that disposability is a discursive and material relation of power that creates and reproduces invidious distinctions between the value of "legitimate" Canadian settler-citizens (and candidates for citizenship) and the lack of worth of undesirable migrant populations working in Canada, often for protracted periods of time. The analytical lens of migrant disposability draws upon theorizing within Marxian, critical modernity studies, and decolonizing settler colonial frameworks. This article explores the technologies of disposability that lay waste to low wage workers in sites such as immigration law and provincial/territorial employment legislation, the workplace, transport, living conditions, access to health care and the practice of medical repatriation of injured and ill migrant workers. The mounting evidence that disposability is immanent within low-wage migrant labour schemes in Canada has implications for migrant social justice. The failure to protect migrant workers from a vast array of harms reflects the historical foundations of Canada's contemporary migrant worker schemes in an "inherited background field [of settler colonialism] within which market, racist, patriarchal and state relations converge" (Coulthard, 2014, p. 14). Incremental liberal reform has made little headway insofar as the administration and in some cases reversal of more progressive reforms such as guaranteed pathways to citizenship prioritize employers' labour interests and the lives and health of primarily white, middle class Canadian citizens at the expense of a shunned and racialized but growing population of migrants from the global South. Transformational change and social justice for migrant workers can only occur by reversing the disposability and hyper-commodification intrinsic to low-wage migrant programs and granting full permanent legal status to migrant workers.

Lesbians have limited visibility or representation in educational research, and there has been even less consideration of the ways that lesbians’ experiences are racialized. Using a methodological approach that entwines Karen Barad’s concept of queer temporalities with Kimberlé Crenshaw’s discussion of single-axis intersectionality, this paper uses critical autoethnography to offer narrative examinations of the author’s queerness as constantly enmeshed with her Whiteness. The author considers the degrees to which being situated in the socio-politically conservative U.S. South have influenced her experiences as a queer lesbian academic, even as White privilege has, intentionally and unintentionally, shaped her scholarship.

- by Stephanie Anne Shelton
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- Education, Narrative, Race and Racism, Gay And Lesbian Studies

While many issues of diversity within organizations and corporations themselves are fairly well researched, less attention has been paid to how the business media creates narratives around diversity issues. As business practitioners consume business media, these narratives have a major influence on business practices such as hiring and management. In our chapter in a forthcoming book entitled Underneath the Thin Veneer: Critical Diversity, Multiculturalism, and Inclusion in the Workplace, we analyze the diversity narratives in 275 business media articles to understand how a relatively unidimensional perspective is perpetuated and legitimated given corporate diversity’s highly complex and intersecting nature with social issues. Here, we highlight some core findings of the study.

- by Michael L Rosino and +1
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- Business, Discourse Analysis, Media Sociology, Media Studies

This article seeks to draw links between intersectionality and queer studies as epistemological strands by examining their common methodological tasks and by tracing some similar difficulties of translating theory into research methods. Intersectionality is the systematic study of the ways in which differences such as race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and other sociopolitical and cultural identities interrelate. Queer theory, when applied as a distinct methodological approach to the study of gender and sexuality, has sought to denaturalise categories of analysis and make normativity visible. By examining existing research projects framed as 'queer' alongside ones that use intersectionality, I consider the importance of positionality in research accounts. I revisit Judith Halberstam's (1998) 'Female Masculinity' and Gloria Anzaldua's (1987) 'Borderlands' and discuss the tension between the act of naming and the critical strategical adoption of categorical thinking. Finally, I suggest hybridity as one possible complementary methodological approach to those of intersectionality and queer studies. Hybridity can facilitate an understanding of shifting textual and material borders and can operate as a creative and political mode of destabilising not only complex social locations, but also research frameworks.
Keywords: intersectionality, hybridity, queer studies

Terence McKenna argued that sovereignty over one’s consciousness is the next great civil rights struggle after sexism, racism, and homophobia. “Coming out” about one’s psychedelic identity, interests, and/or experiences is an important part of redefining the public perception of psychedelics and of those who choose to experience their effects. Even non-using “allies” (comparable to LGBTQ allies) can join the conversation in supportive roles. In light of the shifting legal status of psychoactive plants and chemicals, what might it mean to identify as psychedelic in a post-prohibition world?

- by Neşe Devenot
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- Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Queer Studies, Self and Identity
- by Fausto Caggia and +2
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- Comparative Law, Critical Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory, Feminism

Extract: "What makes a good domestic servant? [...] From the early nineteenth century onwards, the domestic relations in British households in colonial India, including family and work relations, were reformed, and transformed though public debate, legislation, and, as I will show, through the powerful intervention of public schooling. The explicit agenda of many schools for the poor in the early nineteenth century, in Britain and its Empire, was 'to furnish the inferior orders with such instruction, and such only, as will be calculated to render them useful members of society, in the humble rank in which it has pleased providence to place them.' In the colonial context, the destined place of the urban poor, who shared religious, and – to some extent – ethnic ties with colonial masters and memsahibs was, so to speak, at their service. It was in public disciplinary institutions, that the future servants not only learned their place, but also acquired the orderly habits and useful skills which made them preferable candidates for European employers."

- by Cécile Stehrenberger
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- Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Intersectionality Theory, Feminism

In most American universities archaeologists and anthropologists are typically housed within the same department. Yet, as archaeologists Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus write in the preface to their new book, The Creation of Inequality, the relationship between archaeology and social anthropology "over the years has been uneasy at best." Reconstructing past societies from scant physical remains is a tough job, and surely it can be made easier by using ethnographically attested societies as models. But when archaeologists make comparisons between ancient and recent societies, they usually do it in an haphazard, anecdotal way. And if archaeologists at least realize that they need social anthropologists, the reverse is often not true. "Many social anthropologists … cannot imagine that there is anything to learn from archaeology."

- by joyce marcus
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- Economics, Anthropology, Human Evolution, Social and Cultural Anthropology

Anna Antonakis’ analysis of the Tunisian transformation process (2011-2014) displays how negotiations of gender initiating new political orders do not only happen in legal and political institutions but also in media representations and on a daily basis in the family and public space. While conventionalized as a “model for the region”, this book outlines how the Tunisian transformation missed to address social inequalities and local marginalization as much as substantial challenges of a secular but conservative gender order inscribed in a Western hegemonic concept of modernity. She introduces the concept of “dissembled secularism” to explain major conflict lines in the public sphere and the exploitation of gender politics in a context of post-colonial dependencies.

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