Gender During the Pandemic: Issues at Stake

A. Suneetha

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2024, vol. 31, issue 1, 28-42

Abstract: The COVID pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities as well as those between researchers and the researched. This experiential note discusses the ethical dilemmas and practical difficulties that I as a feminist researcher and activist have encountered between 2020 and 2022. This was while in the process of my research as well as engagement with COVID-19-related advocacy work. I argue that, even as one was displaced from one’s status as a researcher, these skills were required in advocacy with various branches of the government. Formal research investigations involving fieldwork required that I attend to the needs of the ‘researched’ through humanitarian outreach and advocacy. Such a displacement of the identity of the researcher, I argue, points to the issues at stake in doing feminist research, even during ordinary times.

Keywords: Feminist research; gender; COVID lockdown; migrant worker; transgender identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/09715215231210528

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