2016 - Franco Angeli
Article
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Revisiting intersectionality for EU anti-discrimination law in an economic crisis : a critical legal studies perspective
23-44 p.
- This article discusses the role of EU anti-discrimination law in challenging EU anti-crisis measures from a critical legal studies perspective. Critical legal scholarship is defined through its challenge of 'lex' through the vision of 'ius' and its critical links with social movements. EU anti-discrimination law attracts critique for constituting a compartmentalised socio-legal field, which prevents justice for those at intersections of inequalities. By defining as the aim of anti-discrimination law the combat of disadvantage resulting from ascribed otherness around the nodes sex/gender, race/ethnicity, and disability, the article suggests a convincing normative vision suitable to de-compartmentalise the field and adequately address intersectionality. This critical legal perspective on intersectionality differs from its sociological counterparts by omitting class as a category. The article demonstrates that this distinction is necessary for EU anti-discrimination law to maintain its critical edge. [Publisher'
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Is part of
Sociologia del diritto : 2, 2016-
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ISSN: 1972-5760
KEYWORDS
- Unione europea, Intersezionalità, Crisi economica, Movimenti sociali, Nodi- Tagli allo Stato sociale
- European Union, Intersectionality, Economic crisis, Social movements, Nodes-concept, Social state retrenchment
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In this issue
- Introduction
- Talking about intersectionality : interview with Kimberlé W : Crenshaw
- Revisiting intersectionality for EU anti-discrimination law in an economic crisis : a critical legal studies perspective
- Persecution for reasons of membership of a particular social group : intersectionality avant la lettre?
- Intersectional discrimination and fundamental rights in Germany
- Multidimensional discrimination and the law : views and experiences from a German perspective
- Intersectionality in the UK : between the American paradigm and the European paradox
- Multiple discrimination at work : gaining entry to the swedish workforce
- Multiple discrimination in Swiss legal discourse
- Introducing intersectionality into antidiscrimination law and equality policies in Spain : competing frameworks and differentiated prospects
- From books to action : has protection against discrimination become intersectional in Italy?
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