What is it about?
How to solve methodological problems before you begin intersectional research.
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Why is it important?
The notoriously challenging intersectional methodology (Dhamoon, 2011; Holvino, 2010; Nash, 2008) used in my PhD forced me to be innovative and courageous. Following my PhD, an article in Work, Employment and Society (WES) (McBride, Hebson, & Holgate, 2015 (2015) suggested that intersectionality was too “specialist” to be used by non-experts. This rebuttal article rejected that view and proposed an alternate ‘nimble intersectional’ approach (Mooney, 2016). It was cited several times in the “Introduction to a special issue on Intersectionality in Gender, Work and Organization (A rank in ABDC list) by Rodriguez, Holvino, Fletcher and Nkomo, 2016 (2016). It is important because many articles that discuss intersectional methods are theoretical and abstract. This article has a practical orientation that will help researchers avoid some common pitfalls associated with intersectionality.
Perspectives
Intersectionality confers unique insights into how individuals experience their work environment and workplace relationships, according to their age, gender, race or other dimensions of socially ascribed difference. This article hope to remove some of the uncertainty surrounding research design, so that the methodology becomes more accessable to researchers unfamiliar with the intersectional approach.
Dr Shelagh K Mooney
Auckland University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: ‘Nimble’ intersectionality in employment research: a way to resolve methodological dilemmas, Work Employment and Society, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0950017015620768.
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