The Difference That Power Makes: Intersectionality and Participatory Democracy

<p class="Bodytextforparagraphs">This essay explores how developing more complex analyses of power and politics sheds light on important themes for both intersectionality and participatory democracy. Drawn from intersectional inquiry, Part I, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Hypervisible Powe...

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Main Author: Patricia Hill Collins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2017-06-01
Series:Investigaciones Feministas
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/INFE/article/view/54888
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Summary:<p class="Bodytextforparagraphs">This essay explores how developing more complex analyses of power and politics sheds light on important themes for both intersectionality and participatory democracy. Drawn from intersectional inquiry, Part I, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Hypervisible Power and Invisible Politics,” outlines three focal points of a provisional power analytic: (1) how analyses of intersecting, structural oppressions underpin systems of domination; (2) how a domains-of-power framework provides a set of conceptual tools for analyzing and responding to intersecting power relations; and (3) how a more robust analysis of the collective illuminates the political action of subordinated groups.</p>
ISSN:2171-6080