Intersectionality challenges for the co-production of urban services: notes for a theoretical and methodological agenda

The co-production of urban services, such as water, energy or sanitation, is a vital tool to advance service delivery and to challenge socioeconomic structures that reproduce urban inequalities. This article examines the crossovers between debates on intersectionality and the co-production of urban...

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Published inEnvironment and urbanization Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 367 - 386
Main Authors Castán Broto, Vanesa, Neves Alves, Susana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2018
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Inequality
Intersectionality
Marginality
Sanitation
Social identity
Urban areas
Vulnerability
service co-production
recognition
diversity
gender
urban services
intersectionality
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Summary:The co-production of urban services, such as water, energy or sanitation, is a vital tool to advance service delivery and to challenge socioeconomic structures that reproduce urban inequalities. This article examines the crossovers between debates on intersectionality and the co-production of urban services. Intersectionality is a critical lens for an engaged critique of the dynamics of exclusion that may challenge service co-production. The paper draws attention to three key insights: 1) the need for an explicit questioning of processes to define vulnerability, particularly when they rely on bounded, fixed identity categories; 2) a recognition of the complex and multiple lived experiences of inequality and marginalization in any given context; and 3) a conceptualization of social identity as constituted through dynamic processes and always open to revision.
ISSN:0956-2478
1746-0301
DOI:10.1177/0956247818790208