Feeling ‘like a minority . . . a pathology’: interpreting race from research with African and Caribbean women on violence and abuse

Kanyeredzi, Ava

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“…The ability of a blogging site to be used for comments, both by potential participants and by those seeking to disrupt the research, was not considered at this point. The link to the research site was shared across several well-known feminist blogging sites and online platforms targeting specific communities that have been considered 'hard to reach' for sexual violence research due to low rates of disclosure and barriers to help-seeking (Washington, 2001;Kanyeredzi, 2013), including black women forums and specialist sexual violence services. Over one-hundred requests for participation were received within a twenty-four-hour period, significantly exceeding initial expectations of the levels of participation.…”

Section: Research Interruptedmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Talk about a Cunt with too Much Idle Time’: Trolling Feminist Research

Vera-Gray¹

2017

Feminist Review

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Given the growing popularity of online methods for researchers and the increasing awareness of the levels of harassment and abuse directed at women online-especially women expressing feminist views-it is critical that we address the implications of online abuse for feminist researchers. Focussing on an often hidden yet significant part of our methodological decisions and recruitment, this paper details the online abuse levelled by men's rights activists against a research project on women's experiences of men's stranger intrusions in public space. It argues for the need to locate such experiences within a violence-against-women frame, extending the concept of a continuum of sexual violence. Such an extension renders visible the added labour of 'safety work', which forms an invisible backdrop to the methodological decisions of many feminist researchers. When women gather online, and especially when they attempt to discuss feminism, they are not uncommonly the target of negative attention from individuals, mostly men, who feel threatened by or otherwise uncomfortable with feminism.

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Section: Research Interruptedmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Talk about a Cunt with too Much Idle Time’: Trolling Feminist Research

Vera-Gray¹

2017

Feminist Review

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“…One school explained that they had already had several researchers working at the school and could not accommodate any more. This decision alluded to the historical reluctance marginalised groups, particularly black communities, have expressed towards research, given its use to reinforce harmful stereotypes (Daniel, 2005;Kanyeredzi, 2018). The school's rejection of my research and the wider failure of this initial recruitment strategy demonstrated the limitations of a social justice-oriented research methodology if it could not be effectively or persuasively communicated to potential participants.…”

Section: Negotiating Sameness and Blacknessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Eleanor was not the only interviewee to express belief in the power of a particularly black re-appropriation of attachment parenting and indeed, approval of how my research project might work to promote AP in black communities. The interviewees' articulation of attachment parenting as a protective mechanism for the black community meant that my responsibility to portray them respectfully, explicitly rejecting exploitative stereotypes that have emerged from historic research on black folk (Daniel, 2005;Kanyeredzi, 2018), might be mistaken for a duty to describe attachment parenting favourably. The women's hopes that my project might popularise attachment parenting among mothers was evidently a motivation for participation in the project.…”

Section: Negotiating Sameness and Blacknessmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Now that I know what you’re about’: black feminist reflections on power in the research relationship

Hamilton

2019

Qualitative Research

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Feminists have identified reflexivity as a particularly incisive tool for navigating shifting power dynamics, using it to draw attention to how a researcher’s positionality informs every aspect of the research process, from development of the research question to interactions with research participants. In this article, I describe my reflections as a black feminist researcher conducting research with black women. I examine the unexpected ways in which power can manifest during the research process, complicating the theoretical advice offered by institutional ethics board and feminist methodology textbooks. Intersectionality serves as a useful tool to tease out these dilemmas and though it cannot preempt or solve all challenges, it provides reflexive space for exploring such dilemmas and a tool for navigating power in the research process.

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“…Indeed, stories of suffering and distress played an important role in my early analysis as I processed vicarious trauma from the field. Fieldwork trauma is a documented experience among researchers including research students (Pollard 2009;Clark 2017;Kanyeredzi 2018). Both Janine Natalya Clark (2017) and Ava Kanyeredzi (2018) discuss struggling with the data analysis following traumatic fieldwork, and making sense of emotion in data.…”

Section: Approach To Data Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fieldwork trauma is a documented experience among researchers including research students (Pollard 2009;Clark 2017;Kanyeredzi 2018). Both Janine Natalya Clark (2017) and Ava Kanyeredzi (2018) discuss struggling with the data analysis following traumatic fieldwork, and making sense of emotion in data. While working through data transcription and analysis, I sought external supervision to assist with these experiences and took an extended break of several months.…”

Section: Approach To Data Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy for empowerment: the role of energy in women’s organising and empowerment in urban and peri-urban South Africa

Listo¹

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In feminist scholarship empowerment has been extensively theorised and critiqued, yet it has only recent emerged as a critical concept in energy and gender thinking. An emerging body of studies have begun to more critically theorise empowerment and the links with energy access, yet these studies give less emphasis to key aspects of empowerment as it is conceived by feminist scholars, including collectivity or community, process and social practice. In this thesis, I bring such elements into the conversation of energy, gender and empowerment, and so contribute to an ongoing tradition of feminist energy scholarship. The central aim is to explore the practices and experiences of women who are collectively organising to improve their energy systems, and the role of energy in the process of their empowerment. I do so in the context of urban and peri-urban contexts in South Africa, a country with its own tradition of gender-specialist and feminist researchers and advocates with a focus on energy. Specifically, I address: 1) How, and through what practices, are women collectively organising for better energy systems? 2) In what ways does organising for energy facilitate women's empowerment? 3) What role does energy play in transforming gendered identities and empowerment? My orientation is explicitly feminist and I am guided by a theoretical framework of feminist concepts, namely gender, empowerment and power. I hold the notion of empowerment with complexity, embracing the significant debates which underpin its theorisation. I investigate three case studies in urban and peri-urban South Africa, of organised groups of self-identifying women, such as people's movements, or women's committees, which are active at a local community level and supported by external NGOs. I have taken a feminist methodological approach, with the intention of transformative research practice and attention to both academic and political rigour. This included qualitative data collection methods, adapting a combination of narrative methods such as Oral History Interviews, and Collective Narrative Practice methods with both women and the NGOs to draw out stories and experiences of women as individuals and as collectives. I found that energy, rather than being a causal factor, is intertwined with broader societal institutions and norms which drive the conditions gendered disempowerment and inequality. Equally, energy is intertwined with femininities, conceived as shared expressions gender. In analysing the role of NGO interventions in shaping women's experiences of collective empowerment, I unearthed the significant influence of community practice in enabling empowerment. Finally, I examined women's experiences of empowerment, and the factors they identified as crucial to increasing their power. I found that while the materiality of energy played a role in this process, equally significant were intangible resources such as relationships, learning and theory, and skills, and in these contexts energy's immaterial nature was also significant. In examin...

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Feeling ‘like a minority . . . a pathology’: interpreting race from research with African and Caribbean women on violence and abuse

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

‘Talk about a Cunt with too Much Idle Time’: Trolling Feminist Research

‘Talk about a Cunt with too Much Idle Time’: Trolling Feminist Research

‘Now that I know what you’re about’: black feminist reflections on power in the research relationship

Energy for empowerment: the role of energy in women’s organising and empowerment in urban and peri-urban South Africa

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