When intersectionality met childhood studies: the dilemmas of a travelling concept

Childhood studies/geographies have a longstanding interest in questions around multiple social inequalities and identities in diverse socio-spatial contexts, but have not yet seriously considered the politics of intersectionality. Importing intersectionality into childhood studies is neither a strai...

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Published in:Children's geographies 2017-01, Vol.15 (1), p.6-22
Main Authors: Konstantoni, Kristina, Emejulu, Akwugo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
childhood studies/geographies
Emancipation
embodiment
Geography
inequalities
Inequality
Intersectionality
Politics
praxis
race
Social identity
Social justice
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Summary:Childhood studies/geographies have a longstanding interest in questions around multiple social inequalities and identities in diverse socio-spatial contexts, but have not yet seriously considered the politics of intersectionality. Importing intersectionality into childhood studies is neither a straightforward nor an unproblematic process. We suggest that the question that childhood studies/geographies scholars must confront is how intersectionality can be used in this interdisciplinary field in ways which recognise and take seriously the intellectual history and labour of Black women and preserve the integrity of intersectionality's radical praxis of emancipatory knowledge production and collective action for social justice. This article examines how intersectionality and its emancipatory politics might be preserved, strengthened and enhanced when it is operationalised in a context of childhood studies/geographies.
ISSN:1473-3285
1473-3277
DOI:10.1080/14733285.2016.1249824