Minoritized Representatives: Representation and Intersectional institutional analyses

Abstract

This panel concerns the perspectives and experiences of intersectionally marginalised elected representatives in diverse geographical contexts, responding to repeated calls for the adoption of intersectional approaches to the study of representation and interrogating the relationships among and between descriptive, substantive and constitutive representation from an intersectional perspective. Papers consider the construction of subject positions in representative claims through examples from Flemish politics; collective action of LGBTQIA+ representatives in the Brazilian parliament; present an intersectional institutional analysis of Greenlandic Indigenous representation in the Danish Parliament; descriptive, symbolic, and substantive representation among Black parliamentary representatives in Canada; and the representation, experiences and action of working-class racially minoritized women in the British parliament.

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The British Parliament from an intersectional perspective. The representation, experiences and action of working-class women from racially minoritized groups	View Paper Details
Representational Repertoires: Descriptive, Symbolic, and Substantive Representation Among Black Canadian Parliamentarians	View Paper Details
New Actors, New Action? An Intersectional Institutional Analysis of Greenlandic Representation in the Danish Parliament	View Paper Details
Positionality and the Representative Archive: Analysing Subject-Position Construction in Representative Claims	View Paper Details