Transdisciplinary Feminist Research: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice

Cover
Half Title
Series Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Walking as trans(disciplinary)mattering: a speculative musing on acts of feminist indiscipline
	Introduction
	Walking as trans(disciplinary)mattering
	Walking with buildings and sugar: attending to Whiteness
	Conclusion: walking as feminist indiscipline
	References
Chapter 3: Critical disability studies and the problem of method
	Introduction
	Intuiting the virtual through transdisciplinary pluralism
	The promise of transdisciplinarity
	References
Chapter 4: Historical interludes: the productive uncertainty of feminist transdisciplinarity
	Introduction: the necessary work of refusing to let go
	Suspending and refusing certainty: knowing/ feeling across time
	Nomadic subjectivity in the wake
	The agency of absence
	Becoming polyglot: transdisciplinary unlearning in the wake
	Becoming traveler, becoming transdisciplinary feminist researcher, becoming-nomadic
	Concluding: new ways of knowing: the practice of ‘as if’ as nomadic resistance
	References
Chapter 5: Powerful dressing: artfully challenging sexism in the academy
	Introduction
	How dress codes uphold sexism in the academy
	Design and curation of the Power Dressing project
	Power dressing with women academics and students
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Listening to water: situated dialogues between Black, Indigenous and Black-Indigenous feminisms
	Orientations
	Ocean estrangements
	Siwasho remembers
	Developmental watery pedagogies in early childhood education
	Water pipes and racial capitalist abandonment
	Troubling mastery and control
	Black sand–water encounters
	Mni wiconi, water is life
	Standing Rock Oceti Sakowin encounters
	Forest–water encounters
	Yana wana
	Yana wana early childhood pedagogies
	Towards a water revolution in early childhood education
	References
Chapter 7: The bathroom polemic: addressing the ethical and political significance of transgender informed epistemologies for feminist transdisciplinary inquiry
	Introduction
	Western’s policy on washroom inclusivity and debates about who gets to count as a woman
	Historical backdrop to trans-exclusionary radical feminism
	Contesting trans-exclusionary radical feminism
	The epistemological necessity of trans informed accounts of embodiment in feminist transdisciplinary inquiry
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 8: Performance practice and ecofeminism:a diffractive approach for a transdisciplinary pedagogy
	Introduction
	performance pedagogy
	Enter the assemblage: the workshop as
	experimental apparatus
	Ecofeminist fabulations in the university
	References
Chapter 9: Living in the hyphens: between a here, a there, and an elsewhere
	Introduction: I-m-migrant
	Researching the lived experience of ‘feeling like a foreigner’
	Living in-between: Trishanku’s curse
	Conclusion: to be and to belong
	References
Chapter 10: Caster Semenya: the surveillance of sportswomen's bodies, feminism and transdisciplinary research
	Introduction
	Caster Semenya and her battle for legitimacy
	Testosterone: the discourse of science and sport
	Bad sport science: a public health issue?
	Policing women’s bodies: critical intersectional analysis
	Conclusions: addressing the wrong decision in the right way and feminist transdisciplinary movements for change
	References
Chapter 11: Womanist and Chicana/Latina feminist methodologies: contemplations on the spiritual dimensions of research
	Introduction
	Womanism and Chicana feminism as spiritual facilitators
	Spiritual activism
	Spiritualized methodologies as transdisciplinary feminist research praxis
	Healing colonial wounds through spiritualized methodologies
	Spiritual praxis: energy work
	How does energy work change methodology?
	Spiritual praxis: interconnectivity
	How does working with/in opposition change methodology?
	Expanding transdisciplinary feminist research: Womanist and Chicana feminist spiritual possibilities
	References
Chapter 12: Hear me roar: sound feminisms and qualitative methodologies
	Introduction: Resounding feminisms, or what would feminism sound like?
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 13: Inter(r)uptions: reimagining dialogue, justice, and healing
	Introduction
	First interruption: privilege and accountability
	Second interruption: vigilance and refusal
	Third interruption: radical healing
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 14: Moving with the folds of time and place: exploring gut reactions in speculative transdisciplinary research with teen girls' in a post-industrial community
	Introduction
	Staring with movement folds
	Extensive and intensive pleats in/of movement
	The more-than of methodology
	Folds of time and place
	Gender unfolds
	Gut reactions
	Movement (un)folds: becoming unstuck
	Futures folds
	Note
	References
Chapter 15: Transition states: chemistry educators engaging with and being challenged by matter, materiality and what may come to be
	Introduction: use of material feminist theory in chemistry education – teaching, learning and research
	Our discipline, our research
	Transition states: a ‘chemical sense’ explanation
	Transdisciplinary practices of cogenerative dialogues, snaplogs and shadowing
	Conclusion: kick back at chemistry education
	References
Chapter 16: Embodying critical arts-based research: complicating thought/thot leaders through transdisciplinary discourse
	Introduction
	Constructing a transdisciplinary narrative
	Women of color as thought/t.h.o.t leaders
	Hip-hop feminism
	Complicating feminist discourse
	Critical race feminism and intersectionality
	Material feminist narratives
	Coping and forward movement
	Passion and dissent: addressing the weight of race via art, critical feminism and intersectionality
	References
Chapter 17: (Un)disciplined: What is the terrain of my thinking?
	Introduction
	A method
	(Un)disciplined: What is the terrain of my thinking?
	How does an (un)disciplined), transdisciplinary, terrain create enabling conditions for certain thoughts?
	What does thinking demand of me now?
	References
Chapter 18: Sex: a transdisciplinary concept
	Introduction
	With and without gender
	Pas de Beauvoir?
	‘An object in the idea’
	Notes
	References
Chapter 19: Conclusion: the rusty futures of transdisciplinary feminism
	Introduction
	Anteriority and futurity
	Listening to the progression of rust
	Rusty intra-actions
	Transdisciplinary rustlings
	Rusty accounts
	References
Index