Class analysis must shift dynamically across context and history
Evidence
But such an analysis is limited in certain ways to a speciļ¬c political economy. Although I do not preclude such an understanding in my framework, I wish to unsettle and disrupt it in favor of a complex intersectional approach that not only understands class in relation to other categories of analysis and is wary of the categories themselves, but that also can dynamically shift according to context and historical location. In the production of representations of the Pakistani Muslim migrant, the concept of race is deeply intertwined with particular ideas about class and gender that, throughout the labor diaspora, have contrasting, conļ¬icting, and sometimes oppositional meanings. Simultaneously, this migrant subjectivity is imbued with the values and beliefs attached to the concepts of illegality, criminality, and terrorism. ā Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 48
Categorization
- QUESTION: The intersectional approach described here is programmatic; worth checking how it plays out in the case studies that follow.
- XREF: connects to: Class difference persists even as class consciousness converges ā Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections fromā¦, 193; Class position includes a temporal trajectory alongside its antagonistic relation to other classes ā Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 743; Repertoires vary with class relations, issue type, and gathering occasion across settings ā Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 314