ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Martina Lw raises the question of how cities are socio-material fabrics in which intersecting gendered and racialized knowledge, bodies, and objects are positioned and placed in relation to each other in specific ways. The chapter is concerned with intersectionality, understood as simultaneously relevant constructions of race and sex/gender, and the relational dynamics of gendering and racializing bodies in the context of urban spaces. Using an example from the city of Berlin, the chapter goes on to illustrate how the intersection(ality) of race and sex/gender permeates major areas of our everyday lives in powerful ways. Lw introduces new concepts in spatial theory to identify intersecting positions and relations. Her argument is that embodied actionsâ€Â"under conditions of a pluralization of hegemonic spatial figuresâ€Â"are correlated and intersected with aspects of racialization and gendering. Race and sex/gender, for her, are not only carved in stone, but also latently reproduced in the implicit national-heroic narrative.
