Intersectionality: Politics - Identities - Cultures Research Group (iPIC)

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The Intersectionality: Politics - Identities - Cultures Research Group (iPIC) research group is concerned with the investigation of cultures, identities and politics from non-traditional perspectives and with an emphasis on positionality. The group is aware that power operates across multiple axes and uses this knowledge to make a difference in the ways the members conduct research.

Based within an art school environment and coming from a range of disciplines the members research the links between culture, politics and identity from an intersectional perspective. The group focuses investigations in particular areas of gender and sexuality, fashion, media, politics, representation, inclusive service design and different types of activisms.

The group's research aims at contributing to discourses of identity politics and to reflect on overlapping systems of oppression and power and engage with multiple axes of identity and subject positions. Through the members' work, the group reflects upon difference and how it can be used as a uniting tool across disciplines, in order to prioritise difference over sameness and to identify boundaries as mutable and traversable.

The group's research areas are:

• Curation: iPIC participates widely in exhibitions and related events, including with Manchester Art Gallery. The group also contributes to the programme of exhibitions and research events at the Winchester Gallery.
• Fashion and Dress: building on the long history of engagement with fashion, dress and textiles at Winchester School of Art, iPIC members are engaged in research investigating embodied dress and fashion practices and their relationships to the intersections of gender, sexuality, age, race and class.
• Gender, Politics and Technology: Research under this strand develops across three interconnected directions: questions of power, identity and difference; the changing relationship between the media and modes of political and civic agency; and the impact of digital technologies on traditional communication strategies

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University of Southampton
Southampton

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