34.3552, Calls: Intersectionalities
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Subject: 34.3552, Calls: Intersectionalities
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Date: 25-Nov-2023
From: Marwa Mekni Toujani [marwa.mekni at islaib.u-jendouba.tn]
Subject: Intersectionalities
Full Title: Intersectionalities
Short Title: INCH 9
Date: 01-May-2024 - 03-May-2024
Location: Méhari Hotel, Yassmine Hammamet, Tunisia
Contact Person: Mahassen Mgadmi
Meeting Email: inch2024islaib at gmail.com
Web Site: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19CV8ozA37yhTHReA2LowkdM5YD-
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Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Philosophy of Language;
Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Language Family(ies): English based
Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2024
Meeting Description:
In the light of the discussions of intersectional identities,
approaches, and disciplines, the conference on “Intersectionalities”
invites multidisciplinary papers addressing, but not exclusively, the
following issues:
- Intersectional identities in black feminist thought
- “Intersectionality wars” and their impact on (black) feminist
theory
- Social justice/privilege/(dis)advantage
- Co-optation of intersectionality
- Intersectional and transnational approaches to human migration
- Intersectionality across state borders and sociocultural
formations
- Intersectionality in sociological research
- Pedagogical practices and teaching intersectionality
- Interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and
transdisciplinarity as forms of intersections
- Intersectionality and sociolinguistic variation
- Intersectionality, language, and identity
- Discursive power and intersectionality
- The language of intersectionality
- Intersectional approaches to language behavior
- Translation practice at the intersection of two
cultures/languages
- Intersectional readings of literary texts
- Intersectionality and decolonization in literature
- Limitations of intersectional analysis
- Intersection(s) of space and time
Call for Papers:
Intersectionality has become a salient concept in debates on identity
politics across feminist theories, critical race theories, literary
criticism, linguistic research, gender studies, disability studies,
ageing studies, and, migration studies, to name a few. The primary aim
of intersectional theories in such fields is to dismantle the
essentialist approach that tend to harmonize human experiences,
identities, privileges, and oppressions.
The essentialist identity has been challenged by a more constructivist
take including a variety of paradigms, such as race, gender, class,
age, nationality, religion, geographical location and the like. “We
live in intersections,” says Rohit Bhargava. Since the concept was
coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989 to emphasize the gender
and race-based vulnerabilities of women of color, it has developed
into a theoretical framework, a research paradigm, a heuristic and
analytical device, a field of study and practice, and a site of
critique and debate, which encompass other intersecting identity
dimensions.
In black feminism, Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality has emerged
to account for the overlapping identities that cut across gender and
race in women’s experiences of privilege and subjugation as well as in
their struggle for egalitarianism and social justice. While various
studies of the articulation of intersectionality by scholars such as
Crenshaw, Patricia Hill Collins, and Anna Julia Cooper - as well as by
the Combahee River Collective Organization - diverge at some point,
they nonetheless agree that the multiplicity of identity markers and
positioning are necessary to understand the workings of power
dynamics.
We read history and dissect texts through critical prisms to
understand the power structures and relations within and without
textual productions, as well as to detect their intersectional
encounters with other texts, what is described as “intertextuality.”
The context-specific studies brought about by literary criticism have
allowed the examination of the author/readers’ individuality in
relation to culture, history and politics. Reader, author, context or
text-focused inquiries cut across to help “deconstruct” the text for
further reconstructions, reconstructions of new textual meanings and
intersectionalities. The interlocking markers of the characters’ and
authors’ identity are helpful to advance a comprehensive understanding
and interpretation of literary works.
The adoption of intersectional perspectives in the survey of
identity-based speech and linguistic justice has also emphasized
identity ramifications and social classifications. In fact,
Geographical Studies and the “Linguistics of Place” inquiries into
language variations and distribution in space and time seek to explore
the interwoven layers of identity structure. “Just as language helps
us to create certain class, ethnic, and gendered identities, for
ourselves, we use language to inflect geographic territories with
class-, ethnic-, and gender-based identities, to name but a few social
axes,” argues Johnstone.
In the same way as cultures intersect and overlap, History and
Geography meet in time and space. The crisscross between the two has
led to the emergence of what is known as “historical geography.” The
overlap between history and geography, on the one hand, and the
emergence of social sciences, on the other, places the notion of
identity(ies) outside fixed and restraining rules and orthodoxies.
Such an approach is however regarded as an “invasion” by some
historians, such as Richard Evans. Similarly, some geographers argue
against the intersecting of both disciplines as a way “to bridge the
divide.”
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