ABSTRACT
In all the discussion surrounding intersectionality, what has received limited attention are intersectionality’s conceptual building blocks: axes, groups, identity, domination – the terms intersectionality scholarship relies upon. This is my focus here. Drawing on two case studies involving prefigurative social spaces, I want to revisit how we think about intersecting inequalities in a way that recentres inequality’s relationship to wider structural processes. At the same time, I want to offer a perspective which is nondeterministic, which, in presenting a polycentric picture of inequality and structural processes, refuses to privilege particular formations of power or social fields ab initio. In other words, this is a perspective which recognises the dynamic, changing character of inequality, as it also recognises the many, varied structural tendencies – and I use tendencies to get away from thinking of structures as things – that shape (and are conditioned by) inequality.
