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Das Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Veranstaltungen
Donnerstag, 18.04.2024, 11:00 UhrForschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität
FKH Kolloquium
Cain Shelley
»Class Consciousness After the Intersectional Turn«
Abstract
Which beliefs, perceptions, desires and intentions should members of the working class possess if they are going to effectively contribute to the political struggle for a socialist society? Despite the importance of this question for socialists, questions of class consciousness have not featured much in the recent revival of socialist theorizing among political philosophers. In this talk, I want to take some steps towards addressing this gap. I will argue that the work of the radical Black feminist scholars Patricia Hill Collins and Kimberlé Crenshaw can productively inform a novel account of the kind of class consciousness twenty-first century socialists should seek to develop among the working class.
The talk should have two major upshots. First, it hopes to bring some order and clarity to what has become a very messy debate about the nature and meaning of intersectionality, by systematizing several of the most significant theses grouped under the »intersectional« banner. Second, socialists have often been very wary of, even hostile to, intersectional ideas. But I hope to show that socialist dismissals of radical Black feminist thought usually rest on mischaracterisations, and that this body of ideas deserves far more serious and charitable consideration from socialists in the future.
Der Redner
Cain Shelley ist derzeit Fellow im Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Zuvor war er auf Einladung des Justitia Center for Advanced Studies an der Goethe-Universität Postdoctoral Fellow am Forschungskolleg. Er promovierte 2022 an der London School of Economics und Political Science mit einer Arbeit zum Thema »Justice & Class Consciousness: A Theory of Political Transition«. Seine Forschungsergebnisse wurden im Journal of Political Philosophy und im European Journal of Political Theory veröffentlicht.
Teilnahme
Bitte teilen Sie uns bis Freitag, den 12. April, mit, ob Sie an der Diskussion und dem anschließenden Mittagessen teilnehmen möchten.
Kontakt: Beate Sutterlüty; E-Mail: b.sutterluety@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de).
