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Book SynopsisCritical intersectional scholarship enhances researchers’ and scholar-activists’ ability to open novel research frontiers. This forward-thinking Research Handbook demonstrates how to pursue fluid and innovative research approaches, identify differences from traditional methodologies, and overcome the common challenges faced when carrying out intersectional research.
A transdisciplinary group of contributors offer their experience and expertise to provide an overview of key research topics, qualitative and quantitative approaches, and empirical examples of integrating intersectionality research with other critical practices. Examining the foundational texts that explain historical developments in systems of oppression and interdisciplinary research on marginalized communities, state-of the-art chapters explore the intersections emerging in studies of gender and sexuality, capitalism, white supremacy, nationalism, colonialism, climate emergencies, imperial decline, and public health. Reconsidering the ways in which scholar-activists carry out research, the Research Handbook demonstrates how an intersectional gaze and a continued commitment to social justice moves us closer to producing valuable research and, ultimately, transforming knowledge.
Advancing innovative and multidisciplinary approaches, this incisive Research Handbook will be an invaluable tool for scholars and researchers hoping to undertake meaningful intersectional research. Its empirical findings will further benefit practitioners tasked with designing intersectional policy.
Trade Review‘Mary Romero is once again pushing the boundaries of intersectionality, reaching backward as well as forward to reveal intersectionality’s deep history and future evolution. All this in a single volume with dozens of contributors demonstrating how to put intersectionality into practice in both research and activism on an astonishingly wide range of issues.’ -- – Leslie McCall, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US
‘Mary Romero’s Research Handbook on Intersectionality
is timely and compelling! This multidisciplinary, historical, transnational, and global collection of excellent articles, with Romero’s incisive introduction, emphasizes the salience of intersectional methodologies. Significantly, it highlights the conceptual and contextual complexities in doing intersectional research. A must read for scholars, activists, and students interested in engaging in research, transforming knowledge, and in linking theory and meaningful praxis.’ -- Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University, US
‘Mary Romero has added a vital resource to the copious literature on intersectionality by building on the highlights of path-breaking classic arguments while combining these in each article with the newest applications of the concept to a wide field of concerns. Both established voices and emerging scholars contribute to centering the issues of practical application to research and activism, and including rarely considered topics such as disability, human rights, and indigeneity. A timely reference for those new to the field but also a source of inspiration for even the most knowledgeable scholars.’ -- Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
‘This cutting-edge volume brings together a number of well-established experts to explore the doing or practice of intersectional work across a number of (trans)disciplinary spaces, and especially in regard to certain neglected areas of scholarship such as settler colonialism, indigenous studies, applied research, and transnationalism. In doing so, the volume extends intersectional scholarship in critical and necessary ways. This is an indispensable contribution to the field.’ -- Vrushali Patil, Florida International University, US
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: intersectionality and transforming the production of knowledge 1 Mary Romero PART I FOUNDATIONAL RESEARCH 2 Ida B. Wells-Barnett, activist and journalist 15 Lori Amber Roesser 3 Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964): intersectionality and activism 33 Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge 4 Du Boisian sociology and intersectionality 51 Matthew W. Hughey 5 The Social Settlement Movement and activist scholarship 69 Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge PART II INTERSECTIONAL RESEARCH IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES SECTION IIA CRITICAL INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 6 Intersectionality as an ethical commitment 90 Sophie Withaeckx 7 Disability and rural poverty in the global South 108 Shaun Grech 8 Anti-colonial praxis in community-based research in feminist food studies 123 Barbara Parker SECTION IIB CRITICAL SEXUALITY STUDIES 9 Researching sexuality and state 143 Jyoti Puri 10 Space, place and urban future 158 Marcus Anthony Hunter and Terrell J.A. Winder 11 Making sexuality, gender, and migration intersectional 170 Salvador Vidal-Ortiz SECTION IIC CRITICAL INDIGENOUS STUDIES 12 Indigeneity, feminisms, and activism 186 Renya K. Ramirez 13 Intersectionality and ethnography 204 Robert Keith Collins 14 Thrivance: an indigenous queer intersectional methodology 223 Andrew J. Jolivétte SECTION IID CITIZENSHIP STUDIES 15 Intersectional insights into lived citizenship 239 Daniela Cherubini 16 Heterosexual marriage-related regimes 257 Laura Odasso 17 Intersectionality, citizenship and labor 274 Pallavi Banerjee and Carieta O. Thomas 18 Gender-based violence and citizenship in a migration context 292 Evangelia Tastsoglou and Lori Wilkinson PART III INTERSECTIONALITY AND APPLIED RESEARCH SECTION IIIA SOCIAL WORK, DIASTER RECOVERY AND HEALTH DISPARITIES 19 Intersectionality and immigrant and refugee trauma 313 Filomena M. Critelli and Asli Cennet Yalim 20 Power dynamics driving disasters’ impacts, response, and recovery 332 Lynn Weber and Anna Smith Pruitt 21 Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women’s health 351 Karen J. Leong, Kathy Nakagawa, and Aggie J. Yellow Horse SECTION IIIB SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY STUDIES 22 Scholar activist intersectional approaches 370 Akosua Adomako Ampofo 23 Multi-level analyses of homecare labor 385 Cynthia J. Cranford and Jennifer Jihye Chun 24 Environmental activism and immigrant women of color 404 Nadia Y. Kim 25 Children’s rights and social change 421 Brian Gran and Colette Ngana PART IV INTERSECTIONAL GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES: GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM 26 Centering region and multi-scalar lenses 443 Ghassan Moussawi 27 Intersectionality and migrant smuggling research 458 Gabriella Sanchez 28 Intersectionality beyond its traditions 476 Bandana Purkayastha and Miho Iwata 29 Centering intersectionality in transnational research 494 Anjana Narayan and Erica Morales Index
