Revis(ualis)ing Intersectionality

Integration Department

Project head: Prof. Dr. Magdalena Nowicka

Running time January 2019 until June 2022
Status Completed project

Former project staff: Dr. Tiara Roxanne

Starting from the visual sphere, the project addresses the question of how a focus on visuality could contribute to further developing methodologies of intersectionality research. The research paradigm of intersectionality has so far assumed categories to describe bodies and processes of social stratification. We want to change the perspective and propose to test a methodology that starts from visual ambiguity as a basic premise. Contrary to the often raised objection that "we need categories to understand the world", we want to explore whether the assumed categories rather stand in the way of the perception of human difference and thus ultimately prevent the understanding of social inequalities.

In this sense, this is a foundational project whose findings can serve research in general that deals with issues around gender, age and ethnicity and approaches them in an intersectional perspective. Furthermore, the aim of this project is to contribute to the development of new research methods.

Publications:

Hashemi Yekani, Elahe; Nowicka, Magdalena; Roxanne, Tiara (2022): Revisualising Intersectionality. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Funding: Volkswagen Foundation (Third-party funding)

Cooperation partner:

Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi-Yekani, Humboldt University of Berlin