This book gives insights into feminist methodologies in theory and practice. By foregrounding the experiential and embodied nature of doing feminist research, this book offers valuable tools for feminist research as a continuous praxis. Emerging from a rich collective learning process, the collection offers in-depth reflections on how feminists shape research questions, understand positionality, share research results beyond academe and produce feminist intersectional knowledges. This book reveals how the authors navigate theory and practice, candidly exploring the difficulty of producing knowledge on the edge of academia and activism. From different points of view, places and disciplinary positions, artistic and creative experiments and collaborations, the book provides a multi-layered analysis. This book will be a valuable resource and asset to early career researchers and interdisciplinary feminist students who can learn more about the doing of feminist research from realistic, accessible, and practical methodological tools and knowledge.
Author(s): Wendy Harcourt, Karijn van den Berg, Constance Dupuis, Jacqueline Gaybor
Series: Gender, Development And Social Change
Edition: 1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 305
Tags: Politics And Gender; Political Theory; Political Science
Preface
On the Shores of a Lake
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: Feminism as Method—Navigating Theory and Practice
Introduction: Navigating Theory and Practice
Mapping Out the Patterns
Intersectionality
Embodiment
Relationality
Emotion
Listening to Silences
Conclusion
References
2 Senses of Discomfort: Negotiating Feminist Methods, Theory and Identity
Introduction
Starting Points: Unsettling the Origins of More-Than-Human Thinking
Fieldwork: Process, Surprises and (The Queer Art of) Failure
Negotiating Plural Identities in and Beyond “the field”
Conclusions
References
3 Feminist Ethics Amid Covid-19: Unpacking Assumptions and Reflections on Risk in Research
Introduction
Starting Points
Unpacking Assumptions
Reflections on Risk
Concluding Thoughts
References
4 Of Apps and the Menstrual Cycle: A Journey into Self-Tracking
Tracking the Origins of This Chapter
Positioning the Journey
The Overwhelming Period
Analogue Intimacy
Flo and Me
The Production of Disembodied Knowledge of the Body
Final Thoughts
References
5 Embodying Cyberspace: Making the Personal Political in Digital Places
Introduction
Background to Women on the Net (WoN): A Feminist Research Project Funded by UNESCO 1997–1999 (Wendy)
Background to Cuir Copensantes (CC): Recalling [recordando], Sensing [sintiendo] and Healing [sanando] together [juntes] (Ximena)
Feminist Genealogies
Feminist Entanglements—Across Time and Place
One: Writing from Confinement
Reflections (Wendy and Ximena)
Two: Care and Nurturing
Reflections (Wendy and Ximena)
Three: Transitions
Reflections (Ximena and Wendy)
Four: Intergenerational Conversations Across Time and Place, a Dialogue
Conclusion: The Transformative Potential of Feminist Methodologies
Epilogue
References
6 Mulai Leave—datang Arrive—pulang Return. Working the Field Together: A Feminist Mother–Son Journey in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Preceding the Beginning
Theory: Accompanied by Children in Field Research
Creating the Field Together
Mulai: Leaving Behind
Datang: Arriving in Yogyakarta
Emotional Maintenance
Bodily Maintenance
Spiritual Maintenance
Pulang: Returning and Intercultural Resonance
Expanding Mobility and Trust
Bidding Farewell
Conclusion: Coming to Terms Otherwise
References
7 Methodologies for Collaborative, Respectful and Caring Research: Conversations with Professional Indigenous Women from Mexico
Setting Common Ground
The Narratives
Marcela. The Food and the Microbus
Oaxaca, November 19, 2019
Microbus Conversations
Miriam. The Market and the Cenote
Valladolid, October 9, 2019
Walking Conversation
Adjusting the Research, Placing Care at the Centre
References
8 Immersion, Diversion, Subversion: Living a Feminist Methodology
Introduction
Journeying from Natural Science to Social Sciences
Chapteengala? (Have You Eaten?)
The Process of Producing “Data”
My Identity as a Researcher
My Caste Location
My Class Background
Gendered Lives
Embodying a Different Living
Poivittu Varuhiren: Goodbye, for the Time Being
Postscript
Reflecting on My Methodology
References
9 Embodied Urban Cartographies: Women’s Daily Trajectories on Public Transportation in Guadalajara, Mexico
Introduction
The Point of Departure
The Intersectional and Embodied Urban Experience
Comprehensive Embodied Urban Cartographies
Mapping Women’s Daily Trajectories to Work
Subjective Trajectory Mapping
Relief Maps
Accompanied Trajectories and Walking Interviews
Cartographies, Public and Private Urban Spaces and Normative Bodies
Conclusion
References
10 Interconnected Experiences: Embodying Feminist Research with Social Movements
Introduction
What Does Feminist Research Methodology Mean to Us?
Relating to Social Movements as Feminist Researchers
Tamara: Embroidering Feminist Activist Research with Women of the MAB
Daniela: Self-Care as a Pleasurable Form of Resistance
Fleur: Blurring the Boundaries Through Activist Research
How Can Feminist Activist Research Contribute to Social Movement Struggles?
Tamara: Connecting Academic Feminist Research with the Movement’s Popular Education Feminist Methodology
Daniela: Self-Care as a Dialogue for Transformation
Fleur: Building and Sustaining Relations as Social Change
Final Thoughts
References
11 Feminist Storytellers Imagining New Stories to Tell
Introduction
Methodology: Imagining
The Steps
The Writing and the Drawing
The Positioning
Appetite for Change
Conclusion
References
12 A Fieldwork Story Told Through Knitting
Casting On—An Introduction
My Seed Stitches—Knitting, Mental Health, and Fieldwork
Crossing Needles, Carrying Yarn—My Fieldwork Story
Casting Off—Closing Reflections
References
13 Scarheart: Research as Healing
Introduction
Method Scientific The
Then
Now
Next
References
14 Epilogue: Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning
