Intersectional approaches of space in feminist, anti-racist and anti-fascist collectives in Athens
This thesis studies the concept of space, approaching it through the prism of intersectionality. Specifically, through eight (8) texts, we try to investigate how space is experienced and represented in the discourses of feminist, anti-racist and anti-fascist collectives calling for mobilizations in the wider area of Athens concerning the period from autumn 2022 to winter 2023. We understand space as the field of negotiation of dominant power relations and the “third spaces”, the real and imagined spaces, as spaces of assertion and resistance. We approach intersectional identities as the nodes where multiple and overlapping forms of oppression and exclusion intersect, leading some subjects or social groups to be placed “out of space”. Discourse is the link between how space is experienced and represented and what intersectional identities the subjects construct discursively. The collectives we study, while appearing to adopt an “agonistic politics” both through the discourses they produced and through the call for embodied action in space in order to confront dominant ideologies, at certain points through their texts participated in the reproduction of dominant power relations and social hierarchies.