The research group GePS, Gender and Pedagogical Processes in Society invites you to the Department of Education’s Higher Seminar:
During 2020 Umeå University’s Department of Education and Umeå Center for Gender Studies will host Professor Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education, University College London, the 2020 years awardee of the Swedish Research Council’s Kerstin Hesselgren Guest Professorship.
Ann Phoenix is a leading scholar within the social sciences with over 200 publications covering a wide range of topics such as narrative methodology, theoretical and empirical investigations of social identity, gender, family studies and intersectional analysis.
This seminar is devoted to Ann Phoenix’s contribution to the field of intersectionality, i.e. the study and analysis of the various social positions that we as humans inhabit. During the seminar we take as a starting point for discussion, two of her articles; Interrogating intersectionality: Productive ways of theorising multiple positioning (Phoenix, 2006) and Decolonising practices: Negotiating narratives from racialized and gendered experiences of education (Phoenix, 2009).
The articles address the theoretical underpinnings of intersectionality and offer examples of empirical investigations informed by intersectional perspectives. From this point of departure, we open up for reflections of the possibilities and challenges of applying intersectional perspectives on research within both education and social sciences more widely.
Phoenix (2006) https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/28082
Phoenix (2009) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613320802651053
GePS, Gender and pedagogical processes in society, is one of six research areas at the department. Read more about GePS.