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Feminist MethodologiesSenses of Discomfort: Negotiating Feminist Methods, Theory and Identity

Feminist Methodologies: Senses of Discomfort: Negotiating Feminist Methods, Theory and Identity [Our chapter builds upon feminist understandings of the more-than-human, using our experiences of working with peasant farmers involved in seed saving (Leila) and activists’ relation to individual environmental practices (Karijn). Through a dialogue around our experiences, we reflect on feelings of discomfort, and how, rather than resolving our anxieties, discomfort has the potential to open up conventional ways of being a researcher. Focusing on relationality through embodied and processual research challenges the notion of method as a tool used by a disembodied researcher observing an inert or external world, a central concern of feminist-oriented research. We show how participating in plural and more-than-human worlds also challenges multiple binary positionings and allows for unwarranted surprises that might undo the assumptions and categories underpinning our research.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Feminist MethodologiesSenses of Discomfort: Negotiating Feminist Methods, Theory and Identity

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Harcourt, Wendy; van den Berg, Karijn; Dupuis, Constance; Gaybor, Jacqueline
Feminist Methodologies — Feb 3, 2022

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-82653-6
Pages
21 –45
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-82654-3_2
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Our chapter builds upon feminist understandings of the more-than-human, using our experiences of working with peasant farmers involved in seed saving (Leila) and activists’ relation to individual environmental practices (Karijn). Through a dialogue around our experiences, we reflect on feelings of discomfort, and how, rather than resolving our anxieties, discomfort has the potential to open up conventional ways of being a researcher. Focusing on relationality through embodied and processual research challenges the notion of method as a tool used by a disembodied researcher observing an inert or external world, a central concern of feminist-oriented research. We show how participating in plural and more-than-human worlds also challenges multiple binary positionings and allows for unwarranted surprises that might undo the assumptions and categories underpinning our research.]

Published: Feb 3, 2022

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