Feminist Research Alliances: Affective convergences
©2022
Edited Collection
282 Pages
Open Access
Series:
Researching with GEMMA, Volume 1
Summary
Feminist Research Alliances: Affective Convergences is the first volume of the "Researching with GEMMA" series whose main purpose is to present innovative, in-depth, and culturally provocative research on critical issues in Gender and Women’s Studies produced within the GEMMA Erasmus Mundus community. By turning to the feminist alliances and the transformative feminist research convergences constructed throughout 15 years together, scholars, collaborators, and alumni reflect on social and political transformations; the decolonisation of academic practices and curricula; the conception of research as involved in a process that calls for self-reflexive and participatory approaches; the necessary involvement of, and claim for, emotions and affects in our research practices; and an emphasis on qualitative and creative research methods and pedagogies.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the editors
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Dedications
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction: Feminist Research Alliances: Affective Convergences. Searching for Directions in Times of Trouble (Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa and Dresda E. Méndez de la Brena)
- Feminist Friendships, Solidarities and a Dream Come True: Shared Conversations about GEMMA (Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa and Orianna Calderón-Sandoval)
- Words from GEMMA’s Friends: Building Partnerships and Consolidating Transnational Solidarities
- Part I Weaving the Personal and the Professional. A Critical Thinking Conversation About the Personal and Professional Challenges Faced Throughout GEMMA
- Section 1. Movements in Academia
- Introduction: Being on the Backstage of Young Feminist Researchers (Ana M. González Ramos)
- Processual Movements in Academia: Being a GEMMA Student or How to Become a Feminist Researcher (Beatriz Revelles Benavente)
- Feminism across Academia: Questioning the Interdisciplinary Quality of Women’s and Gender Studies (Wilmarie Rosado Pérez)
- Section 2. Embodied Subjectivities
- Introduction: Narrating Feminist Subjectivation (Cristina Gamberi)
- Women Asking Questions: Embodied Subjectivity as a Valid Epistemology (Rocío Palomeque)
- Reflections on Two Years of Research on Asexuality and the Lack of Sexual Attraction (Alice Sabbatini)
- Part II Weaving Nomadic Knowledges and Affective Methodologies. A Conversation About the Displacement of Knowledge
- Section 3. Nomadic Knowledges
- Introduction: Nomadic Knowledges, Cosmopolitan Subjects and the Power of Embodied Infrastructures (Suzanne Clisby)
- Brazilian National Identity and the Migratory Processes of Brazilian Women in Italy (Damiana Ballerini)
- Negotiating Discomfort: The Experiences of South Asian GEMMA Students in Europe (Pranjali Das)
- Section 4. Affective Methodologies
- Introduction: Coming of (Nomadic) Age in GEMMA (M.S. Suárez Lafuente)
- Hegemonies of Power versus Affective Relational Anarchy in Social Inclusion Disciplines: Two Case Studies and a Feminist Toolbox (Ana María García López and Ángela Harris Sánchez)
- “Researching with the Trouble”: A Journey of Emotions and Affective Challenges in Doing Feminist Research (Dresda E. Méndez de la Brena)
- Part III Weaving Feminist Pedagogies. A Conversation About Teaching, Researching and How to Do Feminist Pedagogies Otherwise
- Section 5. Weaving Feminist Pedagogies
- Introduction: Researching and Teaching Feminism: Pedagogies of the GEMMA Classroom (Agata Ignaciuk)
- Sharing “Other” Knowledges: Thoughts on Teaching Feminist Ethnography in the GEMMA Master’s Degree (Carmen Gregorio Gil and Ana Alcázar-Campos)
- Challenges and Problems for Research in Library and Information Science from a Gender Perspective (Ana M. Muñoz-Muñoz)
- Women’s Movements Around the World: Some Reflections on Feminist Pedagogy and Its Role in the Feminist Teachings of This Course (Victoria Robles Sanjuán)
- About the Authors
Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa and Dresda E. Méndez de la Brena
Introduction: Feminist Research Alliances: Affective Convergences. Searching for Directions in Times of Trouble
We started this introduction many months ago. We conclude it now. About to say at the “post-pandemics” but is it really already post-pandemics? We do not know. All we know is that these are still times of uncertainties and of cautions. These are the times of something we have learned to call “social distance”, a concept we had never heard of just some months ago. Indeed, new concepts such as “distancing”, “prevention”, “virus”, “isolation”, “lock down”, “vaccination” keep invading our physical and mental spaces as we, the coordinators of this volume, try to return to the project we left unfinished when COVID-19 made its unexpected visit and decided to overstay its “unwelcome”.
Details
- Pages
- 282
- Publication Year
- 2022
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783034341325
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783034341332
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034340038
- DOI
- 10.3726/b17229
- Open Access
- CC-BY
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2022 (April)
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2022. 282 pp., 1 fig. b/w.
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