ORCID
- Elizabeth Done: 0000-0001-6627-1928
Abstract
This paper charts the unfolding of a small-scale qualitative study, presented at institutional ethical approval stage as drawing on posthumanist theorising and seeking to (re)configure the concept of intersectionality, and focusing on the lived experience of postgraduate students of lower socio-economic status with disabilities. The self-selected sample comprised six women, three of whom volunteered accounts of sexual violence that complicated their experiences of dis-ability and class, and highlighted the complexity of their lived experience of intersectionality. We describe a research process in which interviewing became intra-viewing, lived experience came to be understood through Deleuzian and Deleuzo-guattarian concepts and intersectionality became trans-sectionality. We respond to MacLure’s suggestions for postfoundational methods, considering these in relation to the aforementioned study and the concept of transversality, and contend that institutionally mandated research procedures reproduce the violence of normative ableist and socio-political taxonomies whilst the pervasiveness of sexual violence is neglected.
DOI Link
Publication Date
2025-01-01
Publication Title
Gender and Education
Volume
37
Issue
5
ISSN
0954-0253
Acceptance Date
2025-04-17
Deposit Date
2025-04-17
Funding
The research was made possible by internal seed funding from the University of Plymouth. Both researchers wish to express their gratitude to the women who volunteered to participate in the study.
Keywords
sexual violence, dis-ability
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
First Page
611
Last Page
623
Recommended Citation
Done, E., & Baer, C. (2025) 'An immanent postfoundational methodology for researching the violent trans-sections of ableism, classism and sexism', Gender and Education, 37(5), pp. 611-623. Available at: 10.1080/09540253.2025.2506358
