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Senses of Discomfort: Negotiating Feminist Methods, Theory and Identity

In: Feminist Methodologies

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  • Karijn van den Berg

    (University of Amsterdam)

  • Leila Rezvani

    (Hearty Roots Farm)

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.

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  • Karijn van den Berg & Leila Rezvani, 2022. "Senses of Discomfort: Negotiating Feminist Methods, Theory and Identity," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Wendy Harcourt & Karijn van den Berg & Constance Dupuis & Jacqueline Gaybor (ed.), Feminist Methodologies, chapter 0, pages 21-45, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-3-030-82654-3_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82654-3_2
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