SOCY09002 2022 Social Locations: An Intersectional Approach

'Social location' refers to the various positions occupied by individuals and groups in societies, such as gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, disability/ability, migration status, etc. which influence their life perspectives and experiences, encompassing experiences of privilege and/or oppression. Taking social locations as a starting point, this module focuses on intersectional understandings of forms of oppression and privilege such as patriarchy, racism, colonialism, homophobia and ableism through an intersectional lens. It explores  interconnected power structures including government, media and economics, which are implicated in theses processes, and foregrounds the achievement of social justice through activism, redistribution and equity.

Showing how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist, Sara Ahmed highlights the ties between feminist theory and living a life that sustains it by building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship and discussing the figure of the feminist killjoy.

Revised edition of Intersectionality, [2017]

First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies, identity, and activism. Here readers will find an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of Clare's exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic, is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to everyone. With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced.

"Since the publication of the first edition of [this book], the United States has lived through two economic downturns, an outbreak of terrorism, and the onset of an epidemic of hate directed against immigrants, especially undocumented Latinos and Middle Eastern people. On a more hopeful note, the country elected and re-elected its first black president and has witnessed the impressive advance of gay rights. As a field, critical race theory has taken note of all these developments, and this primer does so as well. It not only covers a range of emerging new topics and events, it also addresses the rise of a fierce wave of criticism from right-wing websites, think tanks, and foundations, some of which insist that America is now colorblind and has little use for racial analysis and study."--

This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice.Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world.Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.

Linda Tuhiwai Smith's landmark work on decolonial and indigenous research, thoroughly revised and updated.

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Crenshaw, K. (2010)Close Encounters of three kinds: On teaching dominance, feminism and intersectionality 46 Tulsa Law Review 151-89

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Yuval Davis, N. (2006) Intersectionality and feminist politics. European Journal of Women’s Studies 13(3):193-209

Yuval-Davis, N., Anthias, F. and Kofman, E. (2005) Secure borders and safe haven and the gendered politics of belonging: Beyond social cohesion. Ethnic and Racial Studies 28(3) 513-535

Yuval-Davis, N., Kannabiran, K. and Vieten, U.M. (2006) The Situated Politics of Belonging. London, Sage

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