Feminist Methodologies: Experiments, Collaborations and Reflections

by Wendy Harcourt (Editor), Karijn van den Berg (Editor), Constance Dupuis (Editor), Jacqueline Gaybor (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030826536
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/03/2022
Series:	Gender, Development and Social Change
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	297,135
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is Coordinator of the WEGO-ITN “Well-being, Ecology, Gender and Community” - Innovation Training Network and Series Editor of the Palgrave series on Gender, Development and Social Change. She has written widely on gender and development, post-development, body politics and feminist political ecology.

Karijn van den Berg is an independent feminist researcher who brings together environmental politics, feminism, activism and relations of power in her academic and political work, and strives to connect theory, practice and political organising. 

Constance Dupuis is a researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, funded by the WEGO-ITN “Well-being,Ecology, Gender and Community” - Innovation Training Network. Her work focuses on ageing and intergenerational wellbeing from decolonial and feminist political ecology perspectives.

Jacqueline Gaybor is a Senior Technical Advisor at Rutgers - a Dutch centre of expertise on sexual reproductive health and rights and she is a Lecturer at the Erasmus University College, of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Feminism as method: Navigating theory and practice.- Chapter 2: Senses of discomfort: Negotiating feminist methods, theory and identity.- Chapter 3: Feminist ethics amid Covid-19: Unpacking assumptions and reflections on risk in research.- Chapter 4: Of apps and the menstrual cycle: A journey into self-tracking.- Chapter 5: Embodying cyberspace: Making the personal political in digital places.- Chapter 6: Mulai leave - datang arrive – pulang return. Working the field together: A feminist mother-son journey in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.- Chapter 7: Methodologies for collaborative, respectful and caring research: Conversations with professional Indigenous women from Mexico.- Chapter 8: Immersion, diversion, subversion: Living a feminist methodology.- Chapter 9: Embodied urban cartographies: Women’s daily trajectories on public transportation in Guadalajara, Mexico.- Chapter 10: Interconnected experiences: Embodying feminist research with social movements.- Chapter 11: Feminist storytellers imagining new stories to tell.- Chapter 12: A fieldwork story told through knitting.- Chapter 13: Scarheart: Research as healing.- Epilogue: Learning, unlearning, relearning.