What is the <i>Transnational</i> in Transnational Feminist Research?

Hundle, Anneeth Kaur; Szeman, Ioana; Hoare, Joanna

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“…Issues of power, representation, positionality, reflexivity, and identity in the production of knowledge have a long history in feminist scholarship on transnational research methods (Grewal and Kaplan 1994;Mohanty 1988). Hundle, Szeman, and Pares (2019) define transnational feminist research as "a radical framework with an ability to speak to connections and inequalities between the Global North and South; to confront histories and contemporary practices of imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism and their effects on women, gender and sexuality issues; and to displace Eurocentric and liberal feminist theories and ideologies" (4). Scholars and activists engaged in transnational feminist research have intensely debated the possibilities and challenges of forming bonds across political, racial, sexual, class, and ability differences, among women.…”

Section: Embracing Solidarity and Discomfort As Feminist Methodsmentioning

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“…The insider/outsider dilemma, the North/South divide, as well as the harms of homogenizing and essentializing the communities under study have also been fundamental aspects of these conversations (Rajan and Thornhill 2019). The question of the politics of solidarity remains at the center of these debates, as evident in a slew of recent special issues on this topic (Rajan and Thornhill 2019;Hundle, Szeman, and Hoare 2019;Gunaratnam and Hamilton 2017). Thus, the problematic relationship between scholars and participants and the politics of knowledge production continues to haunt transnational feminist studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…My intention in sharing this interview is to expand the spaces of collaboration between Kemly and myself. Collaboration between researchers and participants has been traditionally devalued in Western academic contexts (Hundle, Szeman, and Hoare 2019;Nagar and Swarr 2010). The conversation relays some of the main points of this essay: first, Kemly is very aware of the politics and dilemmas of feminist research; second, solidarity has been a fundamental dimension of my relationship with Sulá Batsú, and, third, discomfort and messiness are inherent to the research endeavor.…”

Section: An Interview With Kemly: Ethnographer Invites Critiquementioning

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“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks

Valle

2021

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Issues of power, inequality, and representation in the production of knowledge have a long history in transnational feminist research. And yet the unequal relationship between ethnographers and participants continues to haunt feminist research. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with the cooperative Sulá Batsú in Costa Rica between 2015 and 2019, in this essay I argue that centering solidarity and working through discomfort creates relationships that can reinvent and endure the persistent imbalance of power between researcher and participant. I conceptualize a solidarity-based methodology that is uncomfortable, tossing between "us and them," the objective and the subjective, akin to Gloria Anzaldúa’s “nepantla,” a liminal space of both fragmentation and unification, of both anguish and healing: a methodology from the cracks. In this essay, I reflect upon my experiences as a Puerto Rican feminist researcher focusing on Sulá Batsú, specifically on my relationship with the coop’s general coordinator. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the coop, including participant observation, in-depth interviews, and textual analysis of their research, briefs, blog posts, presentations, and promotional literature.

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Section: Embracing Solidarity and Discomfort As Feminist Methodsmentioning

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Section: Embracing Solidarity and Discomfort As Feminist Methodsmentioning

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Section: An Interview With Kemly: Ethnographer Invites Critiquementioning

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Valle

2021

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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“…6. No doubt, there are also complex ethical and political challenges facing feminist scholars in/from the Global North seeking to conduct 'transnational' queer research, particularly in light of postcolonial feminist critiques of unequal power relations, positionality, and representation (see Mohanty, 1994;Parashar, 2016;Hundle et al, 2019). 7.…”

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Understanding Queer Oppression and Resistance in the Global Economy: Towards a Theoretical Framework for Political Economy

Gore

2021

New Political Economy

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The study of sexuality, especially queer sexuality, has occupied a historically marginal position within political economy. Where feminist scholars have addressed the topic, they have typically done so through the lens of women's sexual labour and social reproduction and/or by framing sexual orientation and gender identity as a variable through which patterns of differentiation may occur. Most critical political economy ignores sexuality entirely. As a result, matters of queer oppression and resistance have not been systematically investigated or theorised. This paper addresses this gap by fusing together insights from the emergent 'queering IPE' literature with two other strands of scholarship that integrate queer concerns into the study of global capitalism: the 'globalisation' and 'state-centric' frames. Based on this, I propose a theoretical framework for understanding queer struggle and apply this to the analysis of LGBTI politics and activism in Ghana. The paper argues that queer oppression and resistance are important topics of inquiry in and of themselves in political economy. At the same time, a broader ontological shift is required to recognise the constitutive role of sexuality within political economic phenomena, which has potentially far-reaching implications for future research agendas within and beyond the study of queer politics.

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“…Transnational legal knowledge flows provide an important underpinning to this issue of Feminist Review , which we regard as an adjunct and an intervention within transnational feminisms (Hundle, Szeman and Pares-Hoare, 2019). Three aspects of this deserve drawing out.…”

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Abortion in Ireland: Introduction to the Themed Issue

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Londras²,

Heathcote³

2020

Feminist Review

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Trinity College Dublin to discuss spatiality and abortion law reform in Ireland. The 8 th Amendment ('the 8 th ') was still part of the Irish Constitution. Some contributors were cautious, wary of predicting success in the forthcoming referendum, nervous of the fight to come. Others were more confident; change would come, the 8 th would be removed from the Constitution, a new and better law would replace it although, of course, law alone would never be enough. Over the course of the day, scholars, activists, artists, politicians and policymakers discussed what was possible, likely, desirable. Ours was one of thousands of gatherings that had taken place over three-and-a-half decades of activism for abortion law reform in Ireland, but also one of the earliest since the government had confirmed that there would be a referendum on repeal of the 8 th Amendment. The referendum was scheduled for 25 May 2018, almost exactly three months after our workshop. By the time those of us based outside of Ireland were scheduled to fly back to our homes the next day, the snow had become so heavy that many flights had been cancelled. Our time in Dublin extended as the weather worsened. Those unexpected Dublin days contained moments of togetherness, happiness, frustration and exhaustion; on occasion our stuckness brought us together over pints and on snowy walks through almost-deserted city streets. We thought and spoke frequently of the dozens of women who must have had to abandon flights that had been booked to take them for their desired abortions over those days. Some of them probably ended up having to continue with their pregnancies, mere months too early for the referendum and almost a year too early for the new law that would finally make abortion lawful for many women in many circumstances in the Republic of Ireland. Much has, of course, changed since our gathering in Dublin. The 8 th Amendment has been repealed. The new law, the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 (2018), has been introduced. As of 22 October 2019, abortion has been decriminalised for our siblings in Northern Ireland and legislation is expected there in the spring of 2020. However, as we predicted on that snowy day in Dublin, reproductive life under the new constitutional and legislative regime remains difficult, uneven and sometimes cruel. In the articles, Open Space pieces and creative 897684F ER0010.

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What is the Transnational in Transnational Feminist Research?

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks

“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks

Understanding Queer Oppression and Resistance in the Global Economy: Towards a Theoretical Framework for Political Economy

Abortion in Ireland: Introduction to the Themed Issue

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