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Abstract
This article is about doing intersectional analysis and how to practise intersectionality in qualitative research. The overall objective is to contribute to the development of concrete intersectionality methodologies. The first part of the article discusses important aspects of intersectionality, bringing methodological implications into focus, e.g. the number of social categories to include and the status and differences between categories. The second part of the article argues that taking life-story narratives and the analysis of everyday life as a point of departure has potential for empirical analyses of intersectionality. This argument is illustrated by two empirical analyses. The first is about roots and routes in life-story narratives; the second is about the constructions of respectability in everyday life in relation to the intersection between gender, class, and ethnicity.
Notes
1 It can be argued that intersectional thinking predates the construction of the actual term “intersectionality”. For decades, black feminists in the USA and Britain have worked with the interplay between gender and race (Anthias & Yuval-Davis, Citation1983; Combahee River Collective Citation1983; Collins, Citation1989; hooks, Citation1989). Likewise, Marxist feminists have emphasized the interplay between gender and class (Hartman, Citation1981; Walby, Citation1990).
2 Aalborg is a medium-sized provincial city in northern Denmark with approximately 120,000 inhabitants.
3 Odense is approximately 250 km from Aalborg.
4 There are reasons for working towards more complex understandings of mobility as a trait of contemporary society. We are thus critical of CitationJohn Urry's arguments that the sociological focus on territories should be replaced by flow (2000). There is a danger that this type of statement will construct people with relatively limited mobility as non-contemporary (Skeggs, Citation2004).
5 The concept of disidentification (Skeggs, Citation1997) and the derived verb “to disidentify” denotes a marked distancing from identity categories and thereby differs from a merely indifferent absence of identification.