Transdisciplinary Feminist Research: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)

What is feminist transdisciplinary research? Why is it important? How do we do it? Through 19 contributions from leading international feminist scholars, this book provides new insights into activating transdisciplinary feminist theories, methods and practices in original, creative and exciting ways – ways that make a difference both to what research is and does, and to what counts as knowledge. The contributors draw on their own original research and engage an impressive array of contemporary theorising – including new materialism, decolonialism, critical disability studies, historical analyses, Black, Indigenous and Latina Feminisms, queer feminisms, Womanist Methodologies, trans studies, arts-based research, philosophy, spirituality, science studies and sports studies – to trouble traditional conceptions of research, method and praxis. The authors show how working beyond disciplinary boundaries, and integrating insights from different disciplines to produce new knowledge, can prompt important new transdisciplinarity thinking and activism in relation to ongoing feminist concerns about knowledge, power and gender. In doing so, the book attends to the multiple lineages of feminist theory and practice and seeks to bring these historical differences and intersections into play with current changes, challenges and opportunities in feminism. The book’s practically-grounded examples and wide-ranging theoretical orbit are likely to make it an invaluable resource for established scholars and emerging researchers in the social sciences, arts, humanities, education and beyond. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Title 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of figures 9 Acknowledgements 10 Editors 11 Contributors 13 Chapter 1: Introduction 20 Chapter 2: Walking as trans(disciplinary)mattering: a speculative musing on acts of feminist indiscipline 23 Introduction 23 Walking as trans(disciplinary)mattering 23 Walking with buildings and sugar: attending to Whiteness 25 Conclusion: walking as feminist indiscipline 30 References 32 Chapter 3: Critical disability studies and the problem of method 35 Introduction 35 Intuiting the virtual through transdisciplinary pluralism 40 The promise of transdisciplinarity 42 References 44 Chapter 4: Historical interludes: the productive uncertainty of feminist transdisciplinarity 48 Introduction: the necessary work of refusing to let go 48 Suspending and refusing certainty: knowing/ feeling across time 51 Nomadic subjectivity in the wake 54 The agency of absence 55 Becoming polyglot: transdisciplinary unlearning in the wake 56 Becoming traveler, becoming transdisciplinary feminist researcher, becoming-nomadic 57 Concluding: new ways of knowing: the practice of ‘as if’ as nomadic resistance 59 References 60 Chapter 5: Powerful dressing: artfully challenging sexism in the academy 62 Introduction 62 How dress codes uphold sexism in the academy 63 Design and curation of the Power Dressing project 67 Power dressing with women academics and students 70 Conclusion 75 References 77 Chapter 6: Listening to water: situated dialogues between Black, Indigenous and Black-Indigenous feminisms 78 Orientations 78 Ocean estrangements 80 Siwasho remembers 80 Developmental watery pedagogies in early childhood education 81 Water pipes and racial capitalist abandonment 82 Troubling mastery and control 83 Black sand–water encounters 83 Mni wiconi, water is life 85 Standing Rock Oceti Sakowin encounters 86 Forest–water encounters 86 Yana wana 88 Yana wana early childhood pedagogies 89 Towards a water revolution in early childhood education 92 References 92 Chapter 7: The bathroom polemic: addressing the ethical and political significance of transgender informed epistemologies for feminist transdisciplinary inquiry 95 Introduction 95 Western’s policy on washroom inclusivity and debates about who gets to count as a woman 96 Historical backdrop to trans-exclusionary radical feminism 100 Contesting trans-exclusionary radical feminism 102 The epistemological necessity of trans informed accounts of embodiment in feminist transdisciplinary inquiry 103 Conclusion 105 Note 106 References 106 Chapter 8: Performance practice and ecofeminism:a diffractive approach for a transdisciplinary pedagogy 109 Introduction 109 performance pedagogy 113 Enter the assemblage: the workshop as 114 experimental apparatus 116 Ecofeminist fabulations in the university 118 References 120 Chapter 9: Living in the hyphens: between a here, a there, and an elsewhere 122 Introduction: I-m-migrant 122 Researching the lived experience of ‘feeling like a foreigner’ 122 Living in-between: Trishanku’s curse 125 Conclusion: to be and to belong 131 References 132 Chapter 10: Caster Semenya: the surveillance of sportswomen's bodies, feminism and transdisciplinary research 135 Introduction 135 Caster Semenya and her battle for legitimacy 135 Testosterone: the discourse of science and sport 137 Bad sport science: a public health issue? 137 Policing women’s bodies: critical intersectional analysis 138 Conclusions: addressing the wrong decision in the right way and feminist transdisciplinary movements for change 139 References 141 Chapter 11: Womanist and Chicana/Latina feminist methodologies: contemplations on the spiritual dimensions of research 143 Introduction 143 Womanism and Chicana feminism as spiritual facilitators 145 Spiritual activism 146 Spiritualized methodologies as transdisciplinary feminist research praxis 147 Healing colonial wounds through spiritualized methodologies 148 Spiritual praxis: energy work 149 How does energy work change methodology? 149 Spiritual praxis: interconnectivity 151 How does working with/in opposition change methodology? 152 Expanding transdisciplinary feminist research: Womanist and Chicana feminist spiritual possibilities 153 References 154 Chapter 12: Hear me roar: sound feminisms and qualitative methodologies 157 Introduction: Resounding feminisms, or what would feminism sound like? 157 Conclusion 166 References 168 Chapter 13: Inter(r)uptions: reimagining dialogue, justice, and healing 172 Introduction 172 First interruption: privilege and accountability 174 Second interruption: vigilance and refusal 177 Third interruption: radical healing 181 Conclusion 184 Acknowledgements 185 References 185 Chapter 14: Moving with the folds of time and place: exploring gut reactions in speculative transdisciplinary research with teen girls' in a post-industrial community 187 Introduction 187 Staring with movement folds 187 Extensive and intensive pleats in/of movement 188 The more-than of methodology 190 Folds of time and place 191 Gender unfolds 193 Gut reactions 194 Movement (un)folds: becoming unstuck 197 Futures folds 198 Note 200 References 200 Chapter 15: Transition states: chemistry educators engaging with and being challenged by matter, materiality and what may come to be 203 Introduction: use of material feminist theory in chemistry education – teaching, learning and research 203 Our discipline, our research 204 Transition states: a ‘chemical sense’ explanation 205 Transdisciplinary practices of cogenerative dialogues, snaplogs and shadowing 206 Conclusion: kick back at chemistry education 215 References 216 Chapter 16: Embodying critical arts-based research: complicating thought/thot leaders through transdisciplinary discourse 218 Introduction 218 Constructing a transdisciplinary narrative 219 Women of color as thought/t.h.o.t leaders 220 Hip-hop feminism 221 Complicating feminist discourse 222 Critical race feminism and intersectionality 224 Material feminist narratives 225 Coping and forward movement 226 Passion and dissent: addressing the weight of race via art, critical feminism and intersectionality 227 References 228 Chapter 17: (Un)disciplined: What is the terrain of my thinking? 231 Introduction 231 A method 232 (Un)disciplined: What is the terrain of my thinking? 233 How does an (un)disciplined), transdisciplinary, terrain create enabling conditions for certain thoughts? 235 What does thinking demand of me now? 239 References 241 Chapter 18: Sex: a transdisciplinary concept 243 Introduction 243 With and without gender 243 Pas de Beauvoir? 246 ‘An object in the idea’ 249 Notes 253 References 254 Chapter 19: Conclusion: the rusty futures of transdisciplinary feminism 256 Introduction 256 Anteriority and futurity 257 Listening to the progression of rust 257 Rusty intra-actions 259 Transdisciplinary rustlings 262 Rusty accounts 263 References 265 Index 267 "What is feminist transdisciplinary research? Why is it important? How do we do it? Through nineteen contributions from leading international feminist scholars, this book provides new insights into activating transdisciplinary feminist theories, methods and practices in original, creative and exciting ways - ways that make a difference both to what research is and does, and to what counts as knowledge. The contributors draw on their own original research and engage an impressive array of contemporary theorizing - including new materialism, decolonialism, critical disability studies, historical analyses, Black, Indigenous and Latina Feminisms, queer feminisms, Womanist Methodologies, trans studies, arts-based research, philosophy, spirituality, science studies and sports studies - to trouble traditional conceptions of research, method and praxis. The authors show how working beyond disciplinary boundaries, and integrating insights from different disciplines to produce new knowledge, can prompt important new transdisciplinarity thinking and activism in relation to ongoing feminist concerns about knowledge, power and gender. In doing so, the book attends to the multiple lineages of feminist theory and practice and seeks to bring these historical differences and intersections into play with current changes, challenges and opportunities in feminism. The book's practically-grounded examples and wide-ranging theoretical orbit are likely to make it an invaluable resource for established scholars and emerging researchers in the social sciences, arts, humanities, education, and beyond"-- Provided by publisher "What is feminist transdisciplinary research? Why is it important? How do we do it? Through nineteen contributions from leading international feminist scholars, this book provides new insights into activating transdisciplinary feminist theories, methods and practices in original, creative and exciting ways - ways that make a difference both to what research is and does, and to what counts as knowledge. The contributors draw on their own original research and engage an impressive array of contemporary theorizing - including new materialism, decolonialism, critical disability studies, historical analyses, Black, Indigenous and Latina Feminisms, queer feminisms, Womanist Methodologies, trans studies, arts-based research, philosophy, spirituality, science studies and sports studies - to trouble traditional conceptions of research, method and praxis. The authors show how working beyond disciplinary boundaries, and integrating insights from different disciplines to produce new knowledge, can prompt important new transdisciplinarity thinking and activism in relation to ongoing feminist concerns about knowledge, power and gender. In doing so, the book attends to the multiple lineages of feminist theory and practice and seeks to bring these historical differences and intersections into play with current changes, challenges and opportunities in feminism. The book's practically-grounded examples and wide-ranging theoretical orbit are likely to make it an invaluable resource for established scholars and emerging researchers in the social sciences, arts, humanities, education, and beyond"-- Résumé de l'éditeur