Revisiting intersectionality for EU Anti-Discrimination Law in an economic crisis –a critical legal studies perspective

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2016
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Schiek, Dagmar
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FrancoAngeli
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This article discusses the role of EU anti-discrimination law in challenging EU anti-crisis measures from a critical legal studies perspective. Critical legal scholarship is defined through its challenge of ‘lex’ through the vision of ‘ius’ and its critical links with social movements. EU anti-discrimination law attracts critique for constituting a compartmentalised socio-legal field, which prevents justice for those at intersections of inequalities. By defining as the aim of anti-discrimination law the combat of disadvantage resulting from ascribed otherness around the nodes sex/gender, race/ethnicity, and disability, the article suggests a convincing normative vision suitable to de-compartmentalise the field and adequately address intersectionality. This critical legal perspective on intersectionality differs from its sociological counterparts by omitting class as a category. The article demonstrates that this distinction is necessary for EU anti-discrimination law to maintain its critical edge.
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European Union , Intersectionality , Discrimination Law , Critical Legal Studies
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Schiek, D. (2016) 'Revisiting intersectionality for EU Anti-Discrimination Law in an economic crisis –a critical legal studies perspective', Sociologia del Diritto, 27 (2), pp. 23-44.
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