CDNS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ageism, Intersectionality

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CDNS 2000
• Professor: Mihaela Vieru

Document Summary

Intersectionality theory- violence as a social crime. Each person as the intersection of many identity categories. Some= central to the persons being an ability to act in the world. Social location (role) as an oppressor and or/ oppressed. Depends on what categories are brought forward. Identity categories assumed to exist separately, suspended in time and space. One or another, never together and at the same time. We have all these categories that intersect but are in an interdependence. Theoretical framework for articulating a non-fragmenting view of identity and how it works in social-cultural economic- political contexts. The relationship between different aspects of one"s social identity. E. g. race, sex, class, gender, disability, religion . Generated mainly by women of color in response to their marginalization: Single axis/system of oppression= inadequate for lived realities. An aggregate of oppressions---more complex understanding of: Awareness and accountability for the social locations (roles) at which we are implicated in subordinating others.