The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy

Grounded in black feminist scholarship and activism and formally coined in 1989, by black legal scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, intersectionality has garnered significant attention in the field of public policy and other disciplines/fields of study. The potential of intersectionality, however, has not been fully realized in policy, largely due to the challenges of operationalization. Recently some scholars and activists began to advance conceptual clarity and guidance for intersectionality policy applications; yet a pressing need remains for knowledge development and exchange in relation to empirical work that demonstrates how intersectionality improves public policy. This handbook fills this void by highlighting the key challenges, possibilities and critiques of intersectionality-informed approaches in public policy. It brings together international scholars across a variety of policy sectors and disciplines to consider the state of intersectionality in policy research and analysis. Importantly, it offers a global perspective on the added value and "how-to" of intersectionality-informed policy approaches that aim to advance equity and social justice.

Auteur

Olena Hankivsky is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Director of the Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is recognized internationally for methodological contributions in relation to intersectionality research and policy.

Julia S. Jordan-Zachery is Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA.

Résumé
Grounded in black feminist scholarship and activism and formally coined in 1989 by black legal scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, intersectionality has garnered significant attention in the field of public policy and other disciplines/fields of study. The potential of intersectionality, however, has not been fully realized in policy, largely due to the challenges of operationalization. Recently some scholars and activists began to advance conceptual clarity and guidance for intersectionality policy applications; yet a pressing need remains for knowledge development and exchange in relation to empirical work that demonstrates how intersectionality improves public policy. This handbook fills this void by highlighting the key challenges, possibilities and critiques of intersectionality-informed approaches in public policy. It brings together international scholars across a variety of policy sectors and disciplines to consider the state of intersectionality in policy research and analysis. Importantly, it offers a global perspective on the added value and how-to of intersectionality-informed policy approaches that aim to advance equity and social justice.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Bringing Intersectionality to Public Policy: An Introduction

Olena Hankivsky & Julia Jordan-Zachery

PART I: FOUNDATIONS IN THE FIELD

2. How Does One Live the Good Life? Assessing the State of Intersectionality in Public Policy

Tiffany Manuel

3. Reflecting on Am I a Black Woman or a Woman Who is Black? A Few Thoughts on the Meaning of Intersectionality Julia Jordan-Zachery

4. Intersectionality and Public Policy: Some Lessons from Existing Models

Olena Hankivsky & Renee Cormier

5. Empirical Intersectionality: A Tale of Two Approaches

Ange-Marie Hancock

6. An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework: Critical Reflections on a Methodology for Advancing Equity

Olena Hankivksy, Daniel Grace, Gemma Hunting, Melissa Giesbrecht, Alycia Fridkin, Sarah Rudrum, Olivier Ferlatte & Natalie Clark

7. The Difference That Power Makes: Intersectionality and Participatory Democracy

Patricia Hill Collins

PART II: INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

8. Quantitative Approaches to Intersectionality: New Methodological Directions and Implications for Policy Analysis

Joshua Dubrow & Corina Ilinca

9. Cultivating Intersectional Communities of Practice: A Case Study of the New Mexico Statewide Race, Gender, Class Data Policy Consortium As a Convergence Space for Co-Creating Intersectional Inquiry, Ontologies, Data Collection and Social Justice Praxis

Nancy López, Michael O'Donnell, Lucas Pedraza, Carmela Roybal & Jeffrey Mitchell

10. Beyond economic barriers: Intersectionality and health policy in low- and middle-income countries

Gita Sen & Aditi Iyer

11. Lobbying suicide prevention policy for gay and bisexual men: An intersectionality-informed photovoice project Olivier Ferlatte & John Oliffe

PART III: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON PERSISTENT PROBLEMS

12. Understanding Single Womanhood in China: An Intersectional Perspective

Crystal, L. Jiang & Wanqi Gong

13. An Intersectionality Based Framework for Tobacco Control

Jenny Douglas

14. If they beat you and your children have eaten, that is fine Intersections of Poverty, Livelihoods and Violence against Women and Girls in the Karamoja Region, Uganda

Joseph Rujumba & Japheth Kwiringira

15. Through the Looking Glass: An Intersectional Lens of South African Education Policy Michèle Schmidt & Raj Mestry

16. Scaling Educational Policy and Practice Intersectionally: Historical and Contemporary Cases from South and Southeast Asia Mayurakshi Chaudhuri, Viola Thimm, & Sarah Mahler

PART IV: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ADVOCACAY FOR CHANGE

17. Intersectionality and Indigenous Peoples in Australia: Experiences with engagement in Native Title and mining

Natalie Osborne, Catherine Howlett, & Deanna Grant-Smith

**18. From gender-sensitivity to an intersectionality and participatory approach in health research and public policy in the Nether...