What can health inequalities researchers learn from an intersectionality perspective? Understanding social dynamics with an inter-categorical approach?
Kapilashrami, Anuj and Hill, Sarah and Meer, Nasar (2015) What can health inequalities researchers learn from an intersectionality perspective? Understanding social dynamics with an inter-categorical approach? Social Theory and Health, 13 (3-4). pp. 288-307. ISSN 1477-822X (https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2015.16)
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Abstract
The concept of intersectionality was developed by social scientists seeking to analyse the multiple interacting influences of social location, identity and historical oppression. Despite broad take-up elsewhere, its application in public health remains underdeveloped. We consider how health inequalities research in the United Kingdom has predominantly taken class and later socioeconomic position as its key axis in a manner that tends to overlook other crucial dimensions. We especially focus on international research on ethnicity, gender and caste to argue that an intersectional perspective is relevant for health inequalities research because it compels researchers to move beyond (but not ignore) class and socioeconomic position in analysing the structural determinants of health. Drawing on these theoretical developments, we argue for an inter-categorical conceptualisation of social location that recognises differentiation without reifying social groupings – thus encouraging researchers to focus on social dynamics rather than social categories, recognising that experiences of advantage and disadvantage reflect the exercise of power across social institutions. Such an understanding may help address the historic tendency of health inequalities research to privilege methodological issues and consider different axes of inequality in isolation from one another, encouraging researchers to move beyond micro-level behaviours to consider the structural drivers of inequalities.
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Kapilashrami, Anuj, Hill, Sarah and Meer, Nasar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3042-095X;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 54135 Dates: DateEvent1 August 2015Published1 July 2015AcceptedNotes: This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Social Theory Health. The definitive publisher-authenticated versionKapilashrami, A., Hill, S., & Meer, N. (2015). What can health inequalities researchers learn from an intersectionality perspective? Understanding social dynamics with an inter-categorical approach?. Social Theory Health, 13(3-4), 288-307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sth.2015.16 Subjects: Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General) Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Policy Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 02 Sep 2015 11:00 Last modified: 04 Dec 2024 01:16 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/54135