The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy, 1st ed. 2019 The Politics of Intersectionality Series

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

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

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

16. Scaling Educational Policy and Practice Intersectionally: Historical and Contemporary Cases from South and Southeast Asia

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 Netherlands

Petra Verdonk, Maaike Muntinga, Hannah Leyerzapf & Tineke Abma       

19. Intersectional Analysis of Age in the Context of Rural Health Policy in Ukraine

Anna Vorobyova

20. Intersectional Advocacy and Policymaking across U.S. States

Kathleen Marchetti

21. Bringing Intersectionality into Danish Public Policy

22. Intersectionality and LGBTI public policies in Colombia

Camila Esguerra Muelle & Jeisson Alanis Bello Ramírezc

PART V: CHALLENGING COLONIZATION

23 Decoloniality and Emancipatory Intersectionality: The Political Organizing of Domestic Workers in Brazil

Joaze Bernardino-Costa

24. “Who will use my loom when I am gone?” An Intersectional Analysis of Mapuche Women’s Progress in Twenty-First Century Chile

Serena Cosgrove

25. How Intersectionality-based Approaches to International Development Illuminate the Plight of Palestine Refugees

Charla M. Burnett

26. Intersectional Borders in Argentina: Migration, Inequalities and Judicial Colonialism

27. Hearing or Listening? Pipeline Politics and the Art of Engagement in British Columbia

Sarah Marie Wiebe

PART VI: RESPONDING TO NEW AND PRESSING CHALLENGES

28. Exploring Intersectionality as a Policy Tool for Gender Based Policy Analysis: Implications for Language and Health Literacy as Key Determinants of Integration

Nancy Clark & Bilkis Vissandjée

29. The Significance of Intersectionality in Mental Health Care Policy in South Africa

Jacqueline Moodley

30. Aging-in-Place for Low-Income Seniors: Living at the Intersection of Multiple Identities, Positionalities, and Oppressions

Judith Sixsmith, Mei Lan Fang, Ryan Woolrych, Sarah Canham, Lupin Battersby, Tori Hui Ren, & Andrew Sixsmith

31. Need and opportunity: Addressing diverse stakeholders and power in the conflict over Toolangi State Forest, Victoria, Australia

Lisa De Kleyn

32. Listening for Intersectionality: How Disabled Persons Organisations have Improved Recognition of Difference in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme

33. Are we all ‘baskets of characteristics?’ Intersectional slippages and the displacement of race in English and Scottish equality policy

34. Timid Imposition: Intersectional Travel and Affirmative Action in Uruguay

Erica Townsend-Bell

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. 

Provides relevant research to a broad range of scholars, policy actors, activists and practitioners who will benefit from insights related to the value-added application of intersectionality in their work

Offers a global perspective across a range of public policy issues and domains

Edited by leading experts in the field of intersectionality and public policy