Doing feminist longitudinal research across the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 crisis: Unheard impacts on researchers and garment workers in Cambodia

Brickell, Katherine; Chhom, Theavy; Lawreniuk, Sabina; McCarthy, Lauren; Mony, Reach; So, Hengvotey

doi:10.1111/area.12885

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“…In pushing against 'helicopter' research through QLMs it is clearly important to think about what the approach 'does' in the widest possible sense through the research process and when it comes to the temporal dimensions of crisis. In our own paper (Brickell et al, 2024), we scope out what 'feminist longitudinal research' is, and argue that it not only brings to the fore 'temporarily contingent gendered impacts of a phenomenon, but can be distinguished by its intentionality and/or potential to challenge the patriarchal status quo, both in the lives of researchers and participants' (this Special Section). In essence, the paper shows how feminist consciousness-raising can be designed in and/or be an unexpected outcome of QLMs.…”

Section: An Antidote To 'Helicopter' Researchmentioning

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Qualitative longitudinal methodologies for crisis times: Against crisis exceptionalism and ‘helicopter’ research

Brickell,

Lawreniuk,

McCarthy

2024

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In this introduction to the collection of papers ‘Qualitative Longitudinal Methodologies for Crisis Times’, we argue that two main characteristics or ‘qualities’ of qualitative longitudinal methodologies (QLMs) can be identified for researching crisis. The first is that QLMs can function to repudiate crisis exceptionalism. The papers denounce the discrete and time‐limited, instead impressing the ongoingness of crisis from the past, the present, and into the future. The second overarching point made in the introduction is that QLMs protect against ‘helicopter’ research, a heightened risk when studying crisis times. Together the papers offer a close and complex introspection on the use and outcome of QLMs in spaces and times of crisis from the perspective of researchers undertaking the research, and in multiple instances, research participants enrolled in them.

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Qualitative longitudinal methodologies for crisis times: Against crisis exceptionalism and ‘helicopter’ research

Brickell,

Lawreniuk,

McCarthy

2024

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“…Building on the earlier and pioneering feminist work on working bodies (McDowell, 2009(McDowell, , 2013(McDowell, , 2015, these geographers have clearly recentred labour geographies' focus on workers' embodied experiences and the future of their (precarious) work. The large UK-based ReFashion Study project on garment workers in Cambodia, led by Katherine Brickell and a group of talented early to mid-career geographers, has helped revitalise a much-needed critical approach to the 'dark sides' of economic geography (Lawreniuk, 2020) and the necessary concern of labour geographies with both work and livelihoods (Brickell et al, 2023;Brickell & Lawreniuk, 2022).…”

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Troubling economic geography: New directions in the post‐pandemic world

Yeung

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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This intervention focuses on recent disruptions and transformations in the (post)pandemic world economy that will likely ‘trouble’ economic geographers for some time to come. It aims to foster constructive dialogues and move conversations forward in the expanding field of economic geography whose presence and relevance in critical human geography is ironically at stake. I contend that economic geography in the early 2020s is characterised by a changing world and a changing generation of more diverse researchers who can be innovative enough to take on these troubling themes for future research. I suggest four such research directions that combine new themes of geopolitics and risks in remaking the global economy with older issues of work and environment that certainly merit renewed interest and greater analytical attention in the field. Taken together, these new horizons for economic geography research throughout the 2020s and beyond can be well capitalised upon to enhance the intellectual and public relevance of the field.

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‘On the mountain, the world is still all right’: Nature connections in context and the Covid journey of young adults in Austria

Bork‐Hüffer,

Wächter,

Hitchings

2024

People and Nature

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Research and policy during the Covid‐19 pandemic often dovetailed with an established interest in how nearby urban nature spaces can encourage human well‐being. Yet, to define the focus upfront in this way is to overlook the many ways in which different groups may draw on experiences in diverse natural environments to get through challenging times. This paper draws on a qualitative study with 98 university students in Innsbruck, Austria. As part of a co‐production approach, and using a range of exploratory and inductive methods, we examined how they coped with lockdown restrictions and other challenges to everyday life during the pandemic between March and November 2020. The study's longitudinal design reveals how their nature relations evolved over the lifetime of the pandemic. Participants showed a strong identification with the Alpine nature surrounding Innsbruck and deeply mourned opportunities to go there during quarantine at the start. With the relaxation of restrictions, they briefly celebrated the return of access to these spaces before nature experiences were soon blended back into their everyday lives as before. The findings present an account of nature spaces being valued during the pandemic precisely because they were away from urban spaces nearby that had come to feel strange as a result of the lockdown restrictions. This leads us to reflect on the importance of how exactly people engage with local nature and how nature connections change in response to the evolving pressures and preoccupations that shape everyday life, both for young people and others. We emphasise the value of contextual sensitivity in future research and policy hoping to foster nature benefits, both during crisis situations such as these and more generally. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Doing feminist longitudinal research across the COVID‐19 crisis: Unheard impacts on researchers and garment workers in Cambodia

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

Qualitative longitudinal methodologies for crisis times: Against crisis exceptionalism and ‘helicopter’ research

Qualitative longitudinal methodologies for crisis times: Against crisis exceptionalism and ‘helicopter’ research

Troubling economic geography: New directions in the post‐pandemic world

‘On the mountain, the world is still all right’: Nature connections in context and the Covid journey of young adults in Austria

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