Identity and Belonging as Positionality. An Approach from Intersectionality

Authors

  • Claudia Arce-Cuadros Flacso (Ecuador)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26439/contratexto2016.n025.647

Abstract

In this article terms we may use to refer to identities and the meanings of belonging in a multicultural context are considered. For this purpose, we study Stuart Hall’s concept of vernacular cosmopolitism, which recognizes identities as points of suture between discourses and practices; that is, alignments between two scopes: a constitutive outside, and interiority produced by the self. On the other hand, we study the intersectionality approach, which considers that axes of social stratification are mutually organized and interconnected; therefore, identities are not built in relation to fixed groups such as class, ethnic group, nation, but as social positionalities letting the representation of multiple identities to operate simultaneously as possible.

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Author Biography

  • Claudia Arce-Cuadros, Flacso (Ecuador)
    Licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación Social, magíster en Estudios Sociales y Políticos Latinoamericanos y doctoranda en Estudios Andinos por la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Flacso-Ecuador. Consultora de diversas instituciones públicas y privadas bolivianas, e investigadora del Centro Cuarto Intermedio. Ha publicado ¿Cerrando brechas de equidad? Estudio del impacto de proyectos focalizados en mujeres en Mizque, Vacas y Cercado (ONU Mujeres-IFFI) (2011); La democracia desde los márgenes: Transformaciones en el campo político boliviano 2005-2010, en coautoría con María Teresa Zegada (coord.), G. Canedo y A. Quispe (2011); y Construcción simbólica del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia. Imaginarios políticos, discursos, rituales y celebraciones, en coautoría con Yuri Tórrez (2014); ha sido docente en la Universidad Mayor de San Simón. Artículos suyos han aparecido en revistas especializadas nacionales e internacionales, así como en periódicos de circulación nacional.

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Published

2016-07-08

Issue

No. 025 (2016)

Section

Cátedra UNESCO: comunicación y cultura de paz de la Universidad de Lima

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