Post-structuralist review of the “structural opression” notion: the intersectional devices of lumpenizing subjectivation
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Abstract: Considering the current widespread presence of the epistemic formulation “structural oppression” in thediscourses of social and academic movements that debate issues of race, gender and intersectionality, this article seeks to
outline a theoretical and analytical review of the two terms of that expression. Starting from post-structuralist
methodologies, political programs of domination such as racism and sexism can be better evaluated by the notion of
“machine” than by that of “structure”. Then, focusing on academic and/or militant studies that address the social effects of
racism and sexism in Brazil and transnationally, this article proposes a drift from the notion of “oppression” by listing
some of the micropolitical operations that produce the different dimensions of social inequity. Thus, this post-structuralist
epistemic experiment is oriented towards an intersectional interest, locating multiple operations and effects that are
common to the different regimes of social domination.
Keywords: Structural Oppression. Post-structuralism. Intersectionality. Racism. Sexism.
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