Contents
Interplay of Multiple Social Categorisations
Intersectionality has to be understood as critical instrument to analyse how social categorizations (e.g., gender, ethnic origin, socioeconomic disadvantage, disability) shape people's identities and multiple affiliations.
Multiple discrimination, barriers and oppressions have a “qualitatively” different impact from those experienced on one ground only.
Structures, political agendas and representations intersect making specific experience more visible and other invisible in terms of access to rights and opportunities – for examples girls’, migrants’, people with disabilities’ experiences, or access to STEM education and training.
TED Talk: The Urgency of Intersectionality
TED Talk of Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality
Relevance for Education and Training
In regard to facilitation, intersectionality is a perspective helping facilitators to build diversity consciousness and to plan and manage learning processes in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way. The aim is to enable all involved learners to fully participate according to their needs and in a space as free and safe as possible. In particular, the intersectional perspective is helping facilitators to assess and reflect the accessibility of their learning processes, of inbuilt inclusive and exclusive mechanisms and habits, and also of the own action as moderators and facilitators during the process.
References
Collins, Patricia H., & Sirma Bilge, (2016) Intersectionality. Cambridge: Polity Press; Bello G. B. and Mancini L., (2016), Talking about Intersectionality. Interview with Kimberlé W. Crenshaw. Sociologia del diritto, 2: 11-21.;
Crenshaw, Kimberlé W., (2011), Post Scriptum. In Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar, & Linda Supik (edited by), Framing Intersectionality. Debate on a Multi-Faceted Concept inGender Studies. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Crenshaw, Kimberlé W., 1991. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and ViolenceAgainst Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43: 1241-1299.https://doi.org/10.2307/1229039
Inspiring Handbooks and Sources from the Community
Diversity in Youth Exchange Checklist
from German-Polish Youth Exchange
Download
My ID Training Background Reader
Of the project My ID (My Identity, My Idea to be Myself) on sexual orientation and gender identity (in schools)
Download
DIVE-IN
A guidebook of guidebooks for facilitators in Diversity & Inclusion pedagogies
Download
Stories that move
Free online tool for teaching about diversity and discrimination
Website
Trainer Manual: Mainstreaming Gender into Peacebuilding Trainings
Dr. Cordula Reimann, CORE
Download
Resource Mobilization Toolkit
FRIDA's toolkit (not only) for girls, young women and trans youth
Download
Toolkit Social Inclusion
Toolkit 8 of Council of Europe
Download
Ideas, resources, methods and activities for non-formal intercultural education
Download
Diversity Dynamics: Activating the Potential of Diversity in Trainings
Heike Fahrun, Eliza Skowron, Nils-Eyk Zimmermann, MitOst
Handbook for Facilitators
Download
Gender Matters
A manual on addressing gender-based violence affecting young people
Download
Building Trust in Diverse Teams
A concise facilitation handbook by OXFAM
Download
Inclusion A-Z
How to manage inclusion in international projects
Download
Understanding You(th)
Exploring Identity and its Role in International Youth Work
Download
Diversity Style Guide
By R. Kanigel/Journalism Department at San Francisco State University
Online
Innovation Diversity - New approaches of Cultural Encounter in Europe
Un-Label's handbook on inclusive art practices
Download
Diversity Toolkit
to University of Southern California's Guide to Discussing Identity, Power and Privilege
Website
Elisa Rapetti
Researcher in Sociology. PhD in Methodology of Social Research and Applied Sociology at University of Milano. Facilitator at Democracy and Human Right Education in Europe (DARE).
