Embodying Whiteness: Intersectionality, Power and Privilege
This session explores how intersectionality can help us understand the ways power, privilege and racial identities shape our experiences and relationships. Focusing particularly on Whiteness, we examine how privilege is produced, experienced and often rendered invisible. Drawing on Ruth Frankenberg’s Being White, Seeing Whiteness, we consider the emotional and political work of confronting our own positionalities, and the possibilities of critical self-reflection for more inclusive and accountable ways of teaching, learning and relating to others.
Speaker: Dr Ruth Sheldon
Dr Ruth Sheldon is Senior Lecturer in Religion and Social Science at King's College London and co-convenor of Religion, Race and Gender. Her interdisciplinary research explores encounters across religious, racial and social differences, with particular interests in Jewish minorities, ethics, care, disability and neurodiversity. Her latest book examines maternal ethics among religious Jewish women in secular urban contexts. Ruth's teaching is grounded in feminist, inclusive and decolonial pedagogies, with a strong commitment to collaborative and critically reflexive learning.
