[WhatsUpUoH] Lecture on Intersectionality in the Era of Transnationalism By Bandana Purkayastha Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, USA -Reg

Department of Sociology

                                                     Lecture on Intersectionality in the Era of Transnationalism

By

 

Bandana Purkayastha

Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, USA

Date: 18th March 2014 (Tuesday).

Time: 2:30pm.Venue: Seminar Hall, Department of Political Science

 

The development of the concept of intersectionality is widely considered to represent a major step away from earlier theoretical focus on gender binaries.  Many scholars in the United States and elsewhere now focus on race/class/gender as a way of understanding privileges and marginaliities.  Yet this approach implicitly assumes that the nation-state provides the bounding conditions for these intersecting structures and fails to capture current social realities.  This talk focuses on intersectionalities within transnational spaces, multiple layered, coalescing and disjunctured contexts that now envelop people as nation-states reach beyond their political boundaries, and along with supranational entities claim or scrutinize people.  In addition, people’s lives on virtual social spaces, or their inability to access such spaces, create additional dimensions of experience.  The talk delineates how intersectionality has to be reconsidered to better fit contemporary transnational contexts involving the local, global and transnational dimensions of social life.

 

 

 

 

Bandana Purkayastha does research on intersections of gender/racism/class/age; highly skilled migrants and their children, transnationalism; violence and peace; and human rights. Her research has appeared in ten books and thirty-five articles and chapters since 2000. Her most recent book includes As the Leaves Turn Gold, and Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the US.  She has served in many leadership positions including, most recently, as President of Sociologists for Women in Society (2013-2014), Chair, Jessie Bernard Committee, American Sociological Association (2013) in editorial and editorial board positions (Gender & Society, Race and Ethnicity, Journal of South Asian Diasporas).

 

 

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