Difference is better studied relationally than as exclusionary categories.

Evidence

Recent work stresses the need to connect cultural and material dimensions, to view the creation of difference in relational rather than exclusionary terms, and to analyze relations of domination within racialized and sexualized communities. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the standing reading directive’s emphasis on relational rather than essentialist accounts of identity. — connects to: Specific relational modes offer more analytic traction than generalized conviviality. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 84; Difference is relational, embedded in power, and generative. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 88; Local identity categories often explain linguistic practice better than analysts’ broad sociological categories. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 35 (+1 more)