Many issues can be raised in the implications of the expansion of individuals, groups, corporations, and nation-states across transnational spaces and how institutional and structural power that creates dominant groups and relegates people to one category or another keeps shifting and changing over time and across geographies. Similarly, we should reflect on the role of nation/states on the intersection of axes of power; the temporality and scope of methods of inquiry used to explore intersectionality in transnational spaces, and the potential re-creation of the intersectionality discussion as a result of using a transnational feminist lens.
We need to explore the interplay between intersectionality and transnational feminism in order to understand better how the simultaneity of processes that take place disrupts the bounded nation and which new transnational social spaces are created as a result of these. We need to look at what research methods and approaches seem more promising or are been used to explore these issues, to address the ongoing challenge of the practical applications of intersectionality with an added complexity of transnational feminist approaches. It draws on the discourses of more and less powerful social actors to critically engage with the terms of debate in such institutional sites as scholarship, policy making, and popular culture. Studies of even privileged White men and middle-class masculinity are intersectional to the extent that they ask questions about how structural changes in class and gender relations have encouraged men and women to embrace different forms of family in our society today. Despite differences in specifics, any perspective is today called intersectional if it takes multiple relations of inequality as the norm, sees them as processes that shape each other, and considers how they interactively define the identities and experiences, thus analytic standpoints of various individuals and groups.
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