Abstract

This chapter consists of four sections following the introduction. Section II introduces the idea behind putting the three concepts of narratives, intersectionality, and fact-finding together. It considers how human rights fact-finding processes, even as they seek to engage with persons with intersectional identities, fail in doing so without a strong analytical and interpretative framework of intersectionality and an appreciation of narrative methodology. This section studies the example of fact-finding missions on violence against women to highlight this. Section III explains the social theory of narratives for implying its purpose in making fact-finding intersectional. Section IV builds the normative basis of intersectionality and connects intersectionality with narrative methodology. Section V proceeds to consider the theoretical implications of infusing fact-finding with the framework of intersectionality via narrative methodology.