Latinas and the Politics of Urban Spaces by Sharon A. Navarro & Lilliana Patricia Saldaña

Author:Sharon A. Navarro & Lilliana Patricia Saldaña [Navarro, Sharon A. & Saldaña, Lilliana Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, American Government, Local, Women in Politics, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, Hispanic American Studies
ISBN: 9780367432058
Google: ifq6zQEACAAJ
Amazon: B08MWVCF6X
Barnesnoble: B08MWVCF6X
Goodreads: 57388762
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Intersectional Synthesis

An intersectional synthesis refers to the dialectical relationship between an intersectional consciousness and an intersectional praxis. Intersectional consciousness is an awareness of the dynamic interactions between social structures and their government of social group power relations. It is an understanding of inequality through the lens of inequality (Tormos-Aponte 2019). This awareness may arise individually and collectively, as movements can develop collective sensibilities to inter-group power relations and asymmetries (Cole 2008; Curtin et al. 2015; Greenwood 2008; Irvine et al. 2019; Tormos-Aponte 2019). The collective development of an intersectional consciousness within movements allows movements to enact an intersectional praxis. An intersectional praxis refers to organizing approaches that movements adopt to negotiate inter-group power asymmetries and steps that movements and organizers take to transform intersectional forms of oppression (Tormos-Aponte 2019).

Enacting a praxis informed by an intersectional consciousness entails recognizing, representing, and opening opportunities for the leadership and agency of intersectionally marginalized groups within social movements (Tormos-Aponte 2019). Movements and movement organizations may develop an intersectional synthesis by prioritizing the issues of intersectionally marginalized groups and allocating resources for programs and campaigns that attend to these issues, developing an inclusive decision-making structure and leadership, and creating spaces for and supporting the autonomous organization of social groups (Laperrière and Lépinard 2016; Roberts and Jesudason 2013; Strolovitch 2007; Tormos-Aponte 2019; Weldon 2006b). Movement participants arrive at collective action with a priori and implicit understandings of oppression that evolve in the process of engaging in agency (Townsend-Bell 2011). Working toward developing this synthesis is not a static outcome, but rather an ongoing process, as movements develop understandings of oppression in practice and their practices inform their understandings of oppression (Cho et al. 2013; Tormos-Aponte 2019).

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