Feminist Methodologies: Experiments, Collaborations And Reflections

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