Revisualising Intersectionality

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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.
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. 

Offers a uniquely transdisciplinary examination of visual perception and representations of human difference Develops alternatives to category-based intersectionality research Challenges binaries of sameness and difference incorporating insights from artistic research practice

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Elahe Haschemi Yekani

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“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
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