Developing a Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality. Issue 5 (24th October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Martinez Dy, Angela; Martin, Lee; Marlow, Susan
• Is Part Of: Journal of critical realism. Volume 13:Issue 5(2014)
• Page Start: 447
• Page End: 466
• Publication Date: 2014-10-24
• Subjects: critical realism -- critique -- feminism -- intersectionality -- methodology -- ontology; Critical realism -- Periodicals; Réalisme critique; 149.205
• DOI: 10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000043
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-7430

Abstract

Abstract : This article identifies philosophical tensions and limitations within contemporary intersectionality theory which, it will be argued, have hindered its ability to explain how positioning in multiple social categories can affect life chances and influence the reproduction of inequality. We draw upon critical realism to propose an augmented conceptual framework and novel methodological approach that offers the potential to move beyond these debates, so as to better enable intersectionality to provide causal explanatory accounts of the 'lived experiences' of social privilege and disadvantage.