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15 Soc. & Legal Stud. 5 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/solestu15 and id is 1 raw text is: TAxONOMIES OF INEQUALITY: LAWYERS, MAPS, AND THE CHALLENGE OF HYBRIDITY EMILY GRABHAM University of Kent, UK ABSTRACT Intersectional discrimination challenges not only the structure of equality law, but also the techniques that lawyers employ in assessing and arguing discrimination cases. Client forms, akin to questionnaires, assist lawyers in obtaining a full picture of the client's circumstances and in avoiding the omission of any potential legal remedies. Chronologies of events assist lawyers in mapping discriminatory events and estab- lishing that the client is within the time limit for submitting a claim to the Employ- ment Tribunal. These techniques reflect discrimination law's defensiveness against lived complexities, which in itself restricts possible intersectional analyses. For example, through chronologies, each discriminatory event is defined by reference to only one 'ground'. Discrimination law therefore links the passing of time itself to the categories it has produced. In this context, Homi Bhabha's concept of hybridity provides a useful way of describing how intersectional subjects relate to their categorization through law. It shows how legal subjects simultaneously adopt and resist the grounds that lawyers use to describe their experiences. If discrimination law is based on enabling legal subjects to speak for themselves, then we should investi- gate these possibilities for resistance. KEY WORDS categories; discrimination; grounds; hybridity; intersectionality; lawyers; mapping Scientific maps could not be fetishes; fetishes are only for perverts and primi- tives. Scientific people are committed to clarity; they are not fetishists mired in error. My gene map is a non-tropic representation of reality, that is, of genes themselves. (Haraway, 1997: 137) SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES Copyright © 2006 SAGE Publications London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi, www.sagepublications.com 0964 6639, Vol. 15(1), 5-23 DOI: 10.1177/0964663906060971

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