Feminist Methodologies

Experiments, Collaborations and Reflections

Wendy Harcourt, Karijn van den Berg, Constance Dupuis, Jacqueline Gaybor

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783030826536
• eBook ISBN: 9783030826543
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This open access bookgives 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 researchfrom realistic, accessible, and practical methodological tools and knowledge.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction: Feminism as Method—Navigating Theory and Practice
• 2. Senses of Discomfort: Negotiating Feminist Methods, Theory and Identity
• 3. Feminist Ethics Amid Covid-19: Unpacking Assumptions and Reflections on Risk in Research
• 4. Of Apps and the Menstrual Cycle: A Journey into Self-Tracking
• 5. Embodying Cyberspace: Making the Personal Political in Digital Places
• 6. Mulai Leave—datang Arrive—pulang Return. Working the Field Together: A Feminist Mother–Son Journey in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• 7. Methodologies for Collaborative, Respectful and Caring Research: Conversations with Professional Indigenous Women from Mexico
• 8. Immersion, Diversion, Subversion: Living a Feminist Methodology
• 9. Embodied Urban Cartographies: Women’s Daily Trajectories on Public Transportation in Guadalajara, Mexico
• 10. Interconnected Experiences: Embodying Feminist Research with Social Movements
• 11. Feminist Storytellers Imagining New Stories to Tell
• 12. A Fieldwork Story Told Through Knitting
• 13. Scarheart: Research as Healing
• 14. Epilogue: Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning