Narrating Intersectional Perspectives Across Social Scales

This book presents a guide to researching intersectionality. Clear and jargon-free, this book introduces a narrative-driven, scalar, and polyvocal approach to the antiracist-feminist framework. Thimm shows students how intersectionality can be used as a methodology, especially in the analysis of multiple 'identities'.

Autorentext

Viola Thimm, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Anthropology (Privatdozentin) at the University of Heidelberg. Her research interests include cultural practices of mobility (especially those of transnational migration, pilgrimage and tourism); gender relationships and intersectionality; kinship and family networks; Islam and its sociocultural entanglements; and local economies. Her most recent publications include "(Re-)Claiming Bodies: Gendered Configurations in Islam" (2021) and "Muslim Women's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility" (2021), co-edited with Marjo Buitelaar and Manja Stephan-Emmrich.

Inhalt

1. Setting the Stage and Introducing Key Players

2. Voicing Valerie: Narratives by and About Her

3. Analyzing Valerie on the Family Scale

4. Analyzing Valerie on the Ethno-national Scale

5. Analyzing Valerie on the Transnational Scale

6. The Road Traveled and Routes to Take