"Rethinking Intersectionality and Identity Politics in Education" with Professor Amanda Keddie (REDI)

Please join us for the final session in the CRESI and REDI Series, featuring Professor Amanda Keddie (REDI) as she presents her research in "Rethinking Intersectionality and Identity Politics in Education through Nancy Fraser's Status Model for Social Justice".

Social justice work in education often draws on identity politics and intersectionality to understand and address inequities across gender, class, race, culture and ability. These approaches have highlighted important areas of marginalisation and validated diverse identities. However, they have also reinforced fixed categories and overlooked relations of structural power. This presentation examines these tensions through Nancy Fraser’s status model, which conceptualises justice as parity of participation across three dimensions: redistribution (economic justice), recognition (cultural justice) and representation (political justice). Drawing on case studies of gender justice, Indigenous schooling, Muslim girls’ education, White working-class underachievement and elite school diversity, the presentation explores how Fraser’s framework enables a rethinking of identity politics and intersectionality to support transformative approaches to social justice in education.

Dr Amanda Keddie is a Professor of Education at Deakin University. Her research examines the processes, practices and conditions that can impact on the pursuit of social justice in education settings. Amanda’s qualitative research has been based within Australian, English and American education and community contexts and is strongly informed by feminist theory with a particular focus on gender equity and issues of masculinity.