Revisualising Intersectionality

Elahe Haschemi Yekani

ISBN 10: 3030932087 / ISBN 13: 9783030932084

Editore: Springer International Publishing Mär 2022, 2022

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Neuware -Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is looking in a specific context. Revisualising Intersectionality also puts into conversation visual culture studies and artistic research with approaches such as gender, queer, and trans studies as well as postcolonial and decolonial theory to complicate simplified notions of identity politics and cultural representation. The book proposes a revision of intersectionality research to challenge the predominance of categories of visible difference such as race and gender as analytical lenses.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 144 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Revisualising Intersectionality
• Editore: Springer International Publishing Mär 2022
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030932087
• ISBN 13: 9783030932084
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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<i>Revisualising Intersectionality</i> offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is looking in a specific context. <i>Revisualising Intersectionality</i> also puts into conversation visual culture studies and artistic research with approaches such as gender, queer, and trans studies as well as postcolonial and decolonial theory to complicate simplified notions of identity politics and cultural representation. The book proposes a revision of intersectionality research to challenge the predominance of categories of visible difference such as race and gender as analytical lenses.&nbsp;<br>

Informazioni sull?autore

<p><b>Elahe Haschemi Yekani</b> is Professor of English and American Literature and Culture with a Focus on Postcolonial Studies at the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Haschemi Yekani is the author of <i>Familial Feeling</i> and <i>The Privilege of Crisis</i>.</p><p><b>Magdalena Nowicka</b> is a sociologist and Professor of Migration and Transnationalism at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Head of the Department Integration at DeZIM e.V. – German Center for Integration and Migration Research in Berlin.&nbsp;</p><p><b>Tiara Roxanne</b>, (PhD)<b> </b>is an Indigenous cyberfeminist, scholar and artist based in Berlin. Her research and artistic practice investigates the encounter between the Indigenous Body and AI by interrogating colonial structures embedded within machine learning systems. <b></b></p><br>