This book presents a guide to researching intersectionality. Clear and jargonfree, this book introduces a narrative-driven, scalar and polyvocal approach to the antiracist-feminist framework. Thimm shows students and young scholars how intersectionality can be used as a methodology, especially in the analysis of multiple "identities." This text considers complex social inequalities as parallel to one another-not only gender, race, class and age, but also ethnicity, sibling seniority, religion

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... educational attainment. Readers will learn how to investigate, in a methodologically structured way, the interwoven realities of life for different people and population groups simultaneously permeated by marginalization and dominance. With multiple-social-scale analysis and deep discussion of how to conduct data collection, evaluation and write-up, this book will be of interest to students, early-career scholars and faculties teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in women's, gender, queer and ethnic studies. Courses in anthropology, sociology, political science and, beyond that, engaged research on how people are marginalized or privileged given their axes of identification, will also find the book an invaluable resource. Viola Thimm, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Anthropology (Privatdozentin) at the University of Heidelberg. Her research interests include cultural practices of mobility (especially those of transnational migration, pilgrimage and tourism); gender relationships and intersectionality; kinship and family networks; Islam and its sociocultural entanglements; and local economies. Her most recent publications include (Re-)Claiming Bodies: Gendered Configurations in Islam (Palgrave 2021) and Muslim Women's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility (Routledge 2021), co-edited with Marjo Buitelaar and Manja Stephan-Emmrich.