Embodying Feminist Research: Learning from Action Research, Political Practices, Diffractions, and Collective Knowledge

Zavos, Alexandra; Biglia, Bárbara

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“…Feminist scholars already discuss blurring the line between researcher and researched in other grounded, constructionist methods, such as ethnography and participatory action research (Cammarota & Fine, 2008;England, 1994;Gilbert, 1994;McIntyre, 2007;Zavos & Biglia, 2009). However, semistructured interviews differ from ethnography and participatory research in several key ways, most notably in the level of engagement of the researcher with the community under study.…”

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Blurring the Line Between Researcher and Researched in Interview Studies

Yost

Chmielewski

2013

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Blurring the Line Between Researcher and Researched in Interview Studies

Yost

Chmielewski

2013

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…Methodological innovation in recent feminist approaches relevant to migration study seems to revolve around aural approaches such as story‐telling (McKay, ; Dyck and McLaren, ; Zavos and Biglia, ), oral history (Benson and Nagar, ), focus groups (Pratt, ) and deep interviews. These approaches greatly contribute to the redistribution of power between the researcher and the researched by encouraging the researched to participate in the production of data and, thereby, in the mutual construction of knowledge.…”

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Let Their Voices Be Seen: Exploring Mental Mapping as a Feminist Visual Methodology for the Study of Migrant Women

Jung

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article explores how mental mapping can be used as a critical methodology for feminist migration studies. In a case study of female marriage migrants who settle in rural areas in South Korea from other Asian countries, I attempt to develop mental mapping to supplement verbal interviews. Mental maps of hometowns and current neighborhoods drawn by my interviewees represent their geographical imaginations and complex identity negotiations that mirror the change in their social locations. In order to understand multilayered meanings embedded in the images and the way in which power relations existent between the researcher and the researched affect the map production, I suggest a critical reading of the maps. The article shows how a reflexive and intertextual reading makes a difference to the interpretation of the maps. It argues that the maps are not mere reflections of the women's cognition, but rather socially constructed texts through which their desires, emotions, feelings and internal contradictions are expressed and negotiated. My research suggests that mental mapping, if ethically performed and critically evaluated, has potential as a means to convey the unheard voices of the marginalized to diverse audiences.

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“…Además de la ética, las investigaciones feministas se caracterizan por su dimensión política donde las fronteras entre la producción de conocimiento y activismo se tornan difusas (Biglia 2006, Zavos y Biglia 2009. Para la academia feminista, la generación de conocimientos es un compromiso político en la construcción de alternativas de transformación radical.…”

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Consideraciones ético-político-afectivas en investigaciones feministas: articulaciones situadas entre academia y activismo

Osorio-Cabrera¹,

Gandarias²,

Fulladosa³

2021

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Este artículo tiene como objetivo realizar reflexiones teórico-epistemológicas en base a nuestras experiencias articuladas de investigación activista con perspectiva feminista. En base a un proceso de reflexión dialógica conjunta, compartimos algunas pistas de las dimensiones ético-político-afectivas de los procesos de investigación. Para ello ponemos en diálogo nuestros procesos de investigación con las epistemologías feministas y el intercambio con otras pensadoras-investigadoras feministas. Proponemos poner en valor las relaciones de afecto y amistad, que permiten que nuestras investigaciones sean más habitables. Apostamos por una reflexividad que se deja afectar y atravesar por las emociones como herramienta del conocimiento. Incorporamos el análisis semiótico-material de nuestros propios cuerpos, no para caer en la autorreferencia, sino para contemplar sus efectos en la producción de conocimiento. En síntesis, proponemos otras posibilidades de producción de conocimiento desde las experiencias corporales, los afectos y las diversas relaciones que vamos tejiendo y que sostienen nuestros procesos de investigación para construir colectivamente un conocimiento encarnado y situado, comprometido con la constitución de modos de vida vivibles.The aim of this article is to make theoretical-epistemological reflections based on our articulated experiences of activist research with a feminist perspective. Based on a process of joint dialogical reflection, we share some clues about the ethical-political-affective dimensions of the research processes. To this end, we put our research processes in dialogue with feminist epistemologies and the exchange with other feminist thinkers-researchers. We propose to value affective relationships and friendship, which allow our research to be more habitable. We are committed to a reflexivity that allows itself to be affected and traversed by emotions as a tool for knowledge. We incorporate the semiotic-material analysis of our own bodies, not to fall into self-reference, but to contemplate their effects on the production of knowledge. In short, we propose other possibilities for the production of knowledge based on bodily experiences, affects and the diverse relationships that we weave and that sustain our research processes in order to collectively build an embodied and situated knowledge, committed to the constitution of livable ways of life.

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Embodying Feminist Research: Learning from Action Research, Political Practices, Diffractions, and Collective Knowledge

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

Blurring the Line Between Researcher and Researched in Interview Studies

Blurring the Line Between Researcher and Researched in Interview Studies

Let Their Voices Be Seen: Exploring Mental Mapping as a Feminist Visual Methodology for the Study of Migrant Women

Consideraciones ético-político-afectivas en investigaciones feministas: articulaciones situadas entre academia y activismo

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