Trans/Feminist Methodology: Bridges to Interdisciplinary Thinking

Challenging globalisation: toward a feminist understanding of resistance

“…Ideally such gender mainstreamed practices would be contextualised, for instance by invoking a global-local nexus, involve the articulation of inclusive identities which allow for difference and the engagement in so-called transversal politics, which is articulated at the intersection of peoples' different realities, backgrounds, experiences and priorities. 35 There are quite a few examples of women organising as women in the overall protest movement against the FTAA. These activities range from developing position papers, claiming an autonomous women's space within the movement, to a declaration on behalf of the Network of Women Parliamentarians of the Americas.…”

Describing a feminist‐systems theory

“…Identity politics assumes that all persons who fall into a particular category share a common perspective. To overcome this, Pryse (2000) advocates for multi‐methodology, interdisciplinary and cross‐cultural teaching in the academy to enable students to learn to ‘shift’ and ‘pivot’ across disciplines whilst being ‘rooted’ within another (Pryse, 2000). Theorizing from particular standpoints is an important practice within CST (Midgley, 2000).…”

“…Pryse addresses relativist concerns which also surface in the CST literature with academics often keen to avoid the ‘anything goes romp’ (R. L. Flood and Romm, 1997). The notion of ‘situated knowledges’ is, according to Donna Harraway, ‘feminist objectivity’ (Pryse, 2000: p. 115; Davies and Dodd, 2002). Pluralism helps researchers and students to ‘situate’ the assumptions, limitations and political and social influences of any particular research or creative project.…”

“…Pluralism helps researchers and students to ‘situate’ the assumptions, limitations and political and social influences of any particular research or creative project. This opens research to exploring gaps in the research questions and representational techniques of the traditional disciplines; learning alternative cultural reading and viewing strategies and centralizing questions concerning epistemology as they have emerged with critiques of science (Pryse, 2000).…”

Tuning Problems?

“…The question of the politics of women's and gender studies as a field also raises the issue of disciplinization implied by benchmarks. First, for many, women's and gender studies has been a de facto interdisciplinary enterprise (Lykke, 2004;Pryse, 2000). Benchmarking and tuning might thus represent the fashioning of a canon of texts and methods for the field, heralding its emergence as a discipline in its own right (and this is closely related to anxieties about homogenization indicated earlier, of course).…”