Revealing Intersectional Dynamics in Organizations: Introducing 'Intersectional Identity Work'

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dc.contributor.authorAtewologun, Doyin
dc.contributor.authorSealy, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorVinnicombe, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-17T09:11:21Z
dc.date.available2016-08-17T09:11:21Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-24
dc.description.abstractLittle consensus exists regarding conducting intersectional studies. We introduce ‘intersectional identity work’ as an approach for examining individuals’ experiences at the nexus of multiple identities. Incorporating identity work as a theoretical and analytical framework, we use journals and interviews to examine identity-heightening episodes that trigger meaning-making of intersecting senior, gender and ethnic identities among British Asian and black women and men. Our analysis reveals how intersecting identities are leveraged in encounters with subordinates, superiors and clients. Intersectional locations provide resources and cues for claiming or restricting privileged and disadvantaged status in asymmetric power positions. Intersectional identity work expands and restricts identification at juxtaposed locations. It offers a prospect for elucidating intersectional dynamics present in a range of identity configurations and addresses critiques that individual-level intersectional analyses at intersections are mere narrative. We encourage further research that examines other socially salient identities using our approach to develop theory on how multiple identities play out in everyday experience.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationDoyin Atewologun, Ruth Sealy and Susan Vinnicombe. Revealing Intersectional Dynamics in Organizations: Introducing ‘Intersectional Identity Work’. Gender, Work & Organization. Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 223–247, May 2016.en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0968-6673
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12082
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/10327
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherWileyen_UK
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dc.subjectintersectionalityen_UK
dc.subjectidentity worken_UK
dc.subjectmethodologyen_UK
dc.subjectethnicityen_UK
dc.subjectgenderen_UK
dc.titleRevealing Intersectional Dynamics in Organizations: Introducing 'Intersectional Identity Work'en_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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