TY - JOUR
T1 - Barriers to operationalizing intersectionality in equality third sector community development practice
T2 - Power, austerity, and in/equality
AU - Christoffersen, Ashlee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - This article explores the barriers that UK equality third sector organizations practising community development face when seeking to operationalize intersectionality. It is based on research with three networks of equality organizations (racial justice, feminist, disability rights, LGBTI rights, refugee organizations, etc.) in cities in England and Scotland employing mixed qualitative methods. Barriers to operationalizing intersectionality including power relationships with the state, challenges relating to neoliberal austerity, and competing discourses of identity-based 'equalities' and socioeconomic 'inequality' were identified. The article argues that equality third sector organizations are significantly hampered in their attempts to operationalize intersectionality by the low status they occupy vis-à-vis the state and by neoliberal austerity contexts.
AB - This article explores the barriers that UK equality third sector organizations practising community development face when seeking to operationalize intersectionality. It is based on research with three networks of equality organizations (racial justice, feminist, disability rights, LGBTI rights, refugee organizations, etc.) in cities in England and Scotland employing mixed qualitative methods. Barriers to operationalizing intersectionality including power relationships with the state, challenges relating to neoliberal austerity, and competing discourses of identity-based 'equalities' and socioeconomic 'inequality' were identified. The article argues that equality third sector organizations are significantly hampered in their attempts to operationalize intersectionality by the low status they occupy vis-à-vis the state and by neoliberal austerity contexts.
KW - austerity
KW - equality
KW - intersectionality
KW - third sector
KW - UK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084562069&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/cdj/bsz025
DO - 10.1093/cdj/bsz025
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084562069
SN - 0010-3802
VL - 55
SP - 139
EP - 158
JO - Community Development Journal
JF - Community Development Journal
IS - 1
ER -