Senses of Discomfort: Negotiating Feminist Methods, Theory and Identity

Karijn van den Berg () and Leila Rezvani
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Karijn van den Berg: University of Amsterdam
Leila Rezvani: Hearty Roots Farm

Chapter Chapter 2 in Feminist Methodologies, 2022, pp 21-45 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82654-3_2

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