M6/7-MA Human Geography in Practice "Feminist place-making: city, media and politics"
Dozent:innen: Granaz BalochKurzname: M6/7-MA HG i P
Kurs-Nr.: 09.050.464
Kurstyp: Seminar
Empfohlene Literatur
Introduction/What is Feminist Research?- Hesse-Biber, S. N. (Ed.). (2011). Handbook of feminist research: Theory and praxis. SAGE publications.
- Hawkesworth, M. (2012). Truth and truths in feminist knowledge production. Na.
- Reinharz, S., & Davidman, L. (1992). Feminist methods in social research. Oxford University Press.
- Hughes, C. (2002). Key concepts in feminist theory and research. Key Concepts in Feminist Theory and Research, 1-222.
- Hesse-Biber, S. N., & Yaiser, M. L. (2004). Feminist perspectives on social research.
Key Themes and Debates in Feminist Epistemology and Methodology
- Anderson, E. (2000). Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science.
- Harding, S. (1987). Is there a feminist method. Social research methods: A reader, 456-464.
- Crenshaw, K. W. (2013). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. In The public nature of private violence (pp. 93-118). Routledge.
How to Design Feminist Research; What is Evidence?
- Haraway, D. (2016). ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective'. In Space, gender, knowledge: Feminist readings (pp. 53-72). Routledge.
- Narayan, U. (2004). The project of feminist epistemology: Perspectives from a nonwestern feminist. The feminist standpoint theory reader: Intellectual and political controversies, 213-224.
- Harding, S. (2013). Rethinking standpoint epistemology: What is “strong objectivity”?. In Feminist epistemologies (pp. 49-82). Routledge.
- Hundleby, C. (2011). Feminist empiricism. Handbook of feminist research: Theory and praxis, 28.
- Wylie, A. (2007). The Feminist Question in Science: What Does It Mean to'Do Social Science as a Feminist"?.
- Zerbe Enns, C., Díaz, L. C., & Bryant-Davis, T. (2021). Transnational feminist theory and practice: An introduction. Women & Therapy, 44(1-2), 11-26.
A Feminist Research Ethic in Theory and Practice
- Glesne, C. (2016). But Is it Ethical? Considering what is “Right” (Chapter 6) in Becoming Qualitative Researchers, Pearson.
- Anumol, D. (2022). Caring as Research, Researching with Care. Comparative Political Theory, 2(1), 13-20.
- Armstead, C. (1995, September). Writing contradictions: Feminist research and feminist writing. In Women's Studies International Forum (Vol. 18, No. 5-6, pp. 627-636). Pergamon.
- Preissle, J., & Han, Y. (2007). Feminist research ethics. Na.
- Halse, C., & Honey, A. (2005). Unraveling ethics: Illuminating the moral dilemmas of research ethics. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 30(4), 2141-2162.
- Brannelly, T., & Barnes, M. (2022). Researching with Care: Applying Feminist Care Ethics to Research Practice. Policy Press.
What methods best met the research aims?
- Kelly, L., Burton, S., & Regan, L. (2013). Researching women's lives or studying women's oppression? Reflections on what constitutes feminist research. In Researching women's lives from a feminist perspective (pp. 27-48). Routledge.
- Oakley, A. (2013). Interviewing women: A contradiction in terms. In Doing feminist research (pp. 30-61). Routledge.
- Leavy, P., & Harris, A. (2018). Contemporary feminist research from theory to practice. Guilford Publications.
- Maynard, M., & Purvis, J. (Eds.). (2013). Researching women's lives from a feminist perspective. Routledge.
How do Feminists conduct interviews?
- Oakley, A. (2013). Interviewing women: A contradiction in terms. In Doing feminist research (pp. 30-61). Routledge.
- DeVault, M. L., & Gross, G. (2011). Experience, talk, and knowledge. Handbook of feminist research: Theory and praxis, 206.
- Jolly, M., Russell, P., & Cohen, R. (2016). Sisterhood and after: individualism, ethics and an oral history of the women's liberation movement. In Research Ethics and Social Movements (pp. 75-90). Routledge.
Can ethnography be feminist?
- Stacey, J. (1988, January). Can there be a feminist ethnography?. In Women's studies international forum (Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 21-27). Pergamon.
- Pillow, W. S., & Mayo, C. (2011). Feminist ethnography. Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. London: Sage, 187-205.
Feminism, Power, and Geopolitics
- Hall, S., & Gieben, B. (1992). The West and the rest: Discourse and power. Race and Racialization, 2E: Essential Readings, 85-95.
- Massaro, V. A., & Williams, J. (2013). Feminist geopolitics. Geography Compass, 7(8), 567-577.
- Fluri, J. L., & Lehr, R. (2017). The carpetbaggers of Kabul and other American-Afghan entanglements: Intimate development, geopolitics, and the currency of gender and grief (Vol. 31). University of Georgia Press.
Imagining a feminist city
- Hayden, D. (1980). What would a non-sexist city be like? Speculations on housing, urban design, and human work. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 5(S3), S170-S187.
- Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, ‘Sultana’s Dream’, originally published in The Indian Ladies Magazine, Madras, India, 1905, in English.
Fun and Enjoyment
- Phadke, S., Khan, S., & Ranade, S. (2011). Why loiter?: Women and risk on Mumbai streets. Penguin Books India.
- Kirmani, N. (2020). Can fun be feminist? Gender, space and mobility in Lyari, Karachi. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43(2), 319-331.
Inhalt
The aim of this seminar is to critically engage and reflect on feminist interventions and its key concepts which are interrelated across political, social and ecological spheres. Participants will gain knowledge and skills about current gender research analytically and contextually, and how gender in various ways always is inflected by race, class and sexuality. The course will raise awareness of how social relations and categorizations produce normativity and inequality, how social processes are gendered, sexualized, racialized and classed, and what are the situational impacts of these in specific places and temporalities.Alongside critical reading and introduction into feminist theories and feminist critique we will explore feminist place-making in everyday city life in Mainz, Frankfurt or any other place of your choice, as well as in media and politics, contested places, spaces of protest etc.
The course is designed to foster critical thinking, research skills, and a nuanced understanding of the complexities surrounding social justice, equity and (female) digital activism in today's interconnected world.
Methods and techniques may include but are not limited to:
- Participatory method/ research
- Visual research methods / visual technologies
- Storytelling / audiovisual narratives
- Analysing digital democracies
Creative Outcome:
By choosing artistic forms of illustrating or representing our empirical findings we will be free to explore another dimension of giving voices to the invisible, unheard or overseen aspects of social life in cities and/or place-making. Possible outcome formats could include counter-mapping or artography-artworks (techniques of creative photography, collage etc. in combination with geographical findings (for further inspiration see: https://xtopien.org/outputs/)
Potential Topics:
- Create an interactive map that showcases gendered spaces in the chosen city.
- Explore the city (Mainz) to discover cafes and coffee houses, many of which are run by women, by using the Google map as a tool for mapping them.
- Conduct interviews with people and document their stories of everyday life place-making (including places of stigmatisation, exclusion, of anxiety) as a form of auto-photography (reflexive photography).
- Analyse the social media and news related to rising feminism in contemporary politics (e.g how is feminism portrayed in democratic public spheres through the media?)
- Explore feminism and its expression in your home country by analysing film, art, photography etc.
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Journals:
- Hypatia
- Signs Journals
- Feminist Africa
- Feminist Review
- Agenda Journals
Termine
| Datum (Wochentag) | Zeit | Ort |
|---|---|---|
| 24.04.2024 (Mittwoch) | 16:00 - 17:30 | 217a |
| 08.05.2024 (Mittwoch) | 16:00 - 17:30 | 217a |
| 15.05.2024 (Mittwoch) | 16:00 - 17:30 | 217a |
| 05.06.2024 (Mittwoch) | 16:00 - 17:30 | 217a |
| 03.07.2024 (Mittwoch) | 16:00 - 17:30 | 217a |
| 10.07.2024 (Mittwoch) | 16:00 - 17:30 | 217a |