FEMINIST INTERSECTIONALITY VERSUS DECOLONIAL PLURIVERSALITY: JUNCTURES AND DIVERGENCES (100,00 руб.)

Вып. 1–2 (№ 85–86) UDC 316.344 MADINA TLOSTANOVA FEMINIST INTERSECTIONALITY VERSUS DECOLONIAL PLURIVERSALITY: JUNCTURES AND DIVERGENCES Abstract: The article analyzes the origins and development of intersec tionality discourses, compares standpoint versions of intersectionality with the later Western Europe an interpretations of this concept, and tackles the difficult issues of (de)politization and institutional ization of intersectional theories and practices. <...> As a decolonial thinker the author attempts to criticize intersectionality from the position of its questionable enunciation, stressing the importance of the geo politics and bodypolitics of knowledge. <...> The article concludes with a reflection on the intersectional matrix of the postSoviet space emphasizing gender issues and discourses. <...> The author offers some possible future trajectories for intersectionality evolvement on global transcultural and transversal levels. <...> Keywords: intersectionality, pluriversality, bodypolitics of knowledge, geopolitics of knowl edge, politics of location. <...> The contesting origins of intersectionality One of the main theoretical concepts of contemporary feminism which is often used as a tool to establish transnational dialogues and coalitions is the initially metaphoric concept of intersectionality coined by an African American scholar Kimberley Crenshaw [7] and Тлостанова Мадина Владимировна – доктор филологических наук, профессор, профессор кафедры фило софии ФСФ ИОН РАНХиГС (Москва). <...> Feminist intersectionality versus decolonial pluriversality elaborated around the same time by several other African American and women of color scholars and writers such as Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell Scott and Barbara Smith in their All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men but Some of Us are Brave [11], a standpoint Black feminist Patricia Hill Collins in her groundbreaking Black Feminist Thought [6] and certainly Alice Walker, Audrey Lorde, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sandra Cisneros, Octavia Butler and Cherrнe Moraga who contemplated the blindness of mainstream feminist theory and antiracial policy to specific problems of nonWhite women connected with the intersection and merging of racial, gender, class and sexual discrimination(s) in their every day experience. <...> Crenshaw famously linked this in her original article to the “but for” logic according to which there can only be one legitimate factor of discrimination, differentiating the individual from the norm and preventing from keeping <...>