Revisualising Intersectionality

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Revisualising Intersectionality

   • Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Magdalena Nowicka

   Pages 1-9Open Access

3. Where Difference Begins

   • Magdalena Nowicka

   Pages 11-53Open Access

4. Revisualising Intersectionality: Conversations

   • Tiara Roxanne

   Pages 55-75Open Access

5. The Ends of Visibility

   • Elahe Haschemi Yekani

   Pages 77-114Open Access

6. Conclusion: Revising Intersectionality

   • Magdalena Nowicka, Elahe Haschemi Yekani

   Pages 115-125Open Access

7. Back Matter

   Pages 127-132

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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. 

• Open Access
• Intersectionality
• Visuality
• Artistic Research
• Difference
• Visual Culture

“Revisualising Intersectionality invites us to revisit the cognitive sociology of visuality and the visual culture of gender and race identities in order to better understand the dynamics of intersectionality. Taking a stance against the politics of fixed identities, Elahe Haschemi Yekani and Magdalena Nowicka, alongside Tiara Roxanne, reject both social constructivism and biological determinism, looking for a subtler and more realistic take on the political and ethical articulation of social differences.” —Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Professor of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy

• Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Elahe Haschemi Yekani

• Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM), Berlin, Germany

  Magdalena Nowicka

• Berlin, Germany

  Tiara Roxanne

Elahe Haschemi Yekani 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 Familial Feeling and The Privilege of Crisis.

Magdalena Nowicka 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. 

Tiara Roxanne, (PhD) 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.