About the Book

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.

Contents

1      Introduction: Feminism as Method—Navigating Theory and Practice by Constance Dupuis, Wendy Harcourt, Jacqueline Gaybor, and Karijn van den Berg

2      Senses of Discomfort: Negotiating Feminist Methods, Theory and Identity by Karijn van den Berg and Leila Rezvani

3      Feminist Ethics Amid Covid-19: Unpacking Assumptions and Reflections on Risk in Research by Constance Dupuis

4     Of Apps and the Menstrual Cycle: A Journey into Self-Tracking by Jacqueline Gaybor

5      Embodying Cyberspace: Making the Personal Political in Digital Places by Wendy Harcourt and Ximena Argüello Calle

6     Mulai Leave—datang Arrive—pulang Return. Working the Field Together: A Feminist Mother–Son Journey in Yogyakarta, Indonesia by Martina Padmanabhan

7      Methodologies for Collaborative, Respectful and Caring Research: Conversations with Professional Indigenous Women from Mexico by Marina Cadaval Narezo ]

8     Immersion, Diversion, Subversion: Living a Feminist Methodology by C. Sathyamala

9     Embodied Urban Cartographies: Women’s Daily Trajectories on Public Transportation in Guadalajara, Mexico by Azucena Gollaz Morán

10   Interconnected Experiences: Embodying Feminist Research with Social Movements by Daniela Flores Golfín, Tamara Rusansky, and Fleur Zantvoort

11     Feminist Storytellers Imagining New Stories to Tell by Rosa de Nooijer and Lillian Sol Cueva

12    A Fieldwork Story Told Through Knitting by Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad

13    Scarheart: Research as Healing by Emily R. O’Hara

14    Epilogue: Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning by Karijn van den Berg, Constance Dupuis, Jacqueline Gaybor, and Wendy Harcourt

About the Author / Editor

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 “Wellbeing, 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 holds a Ph.D. in International Politics from Aberystwyth University, UK. She 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 Ph.D. 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 well-being from decolonial and feminist political ecology perspectives.

Jacqueline Gaybor holds a Ph.D. on body politics from the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is a Senior Technical Advisor at Rutgersa 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.