Immersion, Diversion, Subversion: Living a Feminist Methodology

C. Sathyamala ()
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C. Sathyamala: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Chapter Chapter 8 in Feminist Methodologies, 2022, pp 163-188 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter tells the story of my fifteen-month ethnographic study in Tamil Nadu, India. I begin by tracing my journey from the time I, as a physician, opted out of clinical medicine to work at the primary care level in rural India. I look at how in this process I gathered theory, methods, politics and found a way of being. The interpretive approach followed acknowledges how my background, positionality, and emotions were an integral part of producing ‘data’. I observed the village people’s everyday lives, as reflected, and refracted through a multi-layered class, caste and gender lenses even as I negotiated my everyday life in the village. Reflecting on the methodology I adopted, I conclude that methodologies need to be lived rather than applied.

Keywords: Feminist methodology; Marxist-feminism; Intersectionality; Ethnography; Village study; Caste; Class; Gender; Tamil Nadu; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82654-3_8

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