Interdisciplinary workshop: intersectionality and the polycrisis

We are now living in what has been called the ‘polycrisis’ - an extended period in which  disparate shocks [environmental, financial, public health] interact so the whole is worse than the sum of its parts. This has major implications for already marginalised groups. The Faculty of Social Sciences is home to researchers who are leading the way for research that is critical to understanding intersectionality (configurations of power and how they generate oppression, discrimination and exclusion). Facilitated by Dan Goodley, Vanesa Castan Broto and Tom Goodfellow, and with support from other colleagues in the Faculty, this workshop is intended to provide a space of intersectionality, which we understand to be a productive, tension-filled and generative space that brings together transformative arenas of research and scholarship that tackle the interdependent drivers of discrimination and privilege and how they produce marginalisation and exclusion.