Doing Feminist Urban Research

Insights from the GenUrb Project

Linda Peake, Nasya S. Razavi, Araby Smyth

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07 August 2024

Feminism & feminist theory; Urban communities; Social research & statistics; Human geography

Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mobilisation.

This book delves into both the institutional and lived reality of the practice of feminist urban research via the insights of a transnational research project (GenUrb). Through reflection exercises based on real life examples, it covers research techniques and feminist methodologies, using NVivo, and knowledge mobilization, including utilizing social media, in the time of the Sustainable Development Goals. It guides readers through navigating the politics of decolonizing research, working across differences, and embracing feminist ethics and activism. The book also explores practices such as translation, professional standards of data management and EDI, collaboration with partners, engaging in teamwork, critically examining the 'field' through comparison and feminist geo-ethnographies, and handling crises, including pandemics. Accompanying web resources will assist scholars and students, with additional audio files and documents.

This book’s practical guidance will help those starting to contemplate and engage in qualitative feminist urban research as well as those teaching the practice and politics of research. It will appeal to and practitioners in urban studies, geography, gender and women’s studies, sociology, anthropology, global studies, and development studies.

Edited by: Linda Peake, Nasya S. Razavi, Araby Smyth
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032668673
ISBN 10: 1032668679
Pages: 394
Publication Date: 07 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Chapter 0 Introducing GenUrb, by Araby Smyth, Linda Peake, and Nasya S. Razavi Part I. The building blocks for decolonising feminist urban research Chapter 1 Feminist comparative urban research, by Linda Peake, Mel Mikhail, and Elsa Koleth Chapter 2 Decolonising feminist knowledge production, by Elsa Koleth and Linda Peake Chapter 3 Feminist engagements with translation, by Wiley Sharp Chapter 4 Feminist scholar-activism, by Mantha Katsikana Part II. The context of 21st-century feminist urban research and policy Chapter 5 Feminist urban research in the time of COVID-19, by Mel Mikhail Chapter 6 Feminist urban policy and the Sustainable Development Goals, by Nasya S. Razavi and Linda Peake Part III. Feminist research standards Chapter 7 Feminist research ethics, by Linda Peake and Wiley Sharp Chapter 8 Professional standards in feminist research, by Araby Smyth Chapter 9 Partnerships and teamwork in feminist collaborations, by Araby Smyth Chapter 10 Data management in feminist research projects, by Mel Mikhail Part IV. Feminist methodologies and research methods Chapter 11 Feminist methodologies and methods, by Linda Peake and Mel Mikhail Chapter 12 Feminist approaches to fieldwork, by Araby Smyth, Elsa Koleth and Linda Peake Chapter 13 Feminist geo-ethnography, by Araby Smyth and Linda Peake Chapter 14 Feminist interviews, by Araby Smyth, Linda Peake, and Elsa Koleth Part V. Feminist data analysis Chapter 15 Feminist practices of translation and interpreting, by Carmen Ponce Chapter 16 Feminist approaches to qualitative data analysis, by Linda Peake and Elsa Koleth Chapter 17 Software-aided analysis for feminist research, by Biftu Yousuf Chapter 18 Using NVivo in feminist research, by Biftu Yousef Part VI. Feminist approaches to knowledge mobilisation Chapter 19 Knowledge mobilisation in a feminist project, by Araby Smyth, Linda Peake, and Jenna Blower Chapter 20 Feminist engagement with social media, by Mantha Katsikana

Linda Peake FRSC is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Toronto, Canada where she was also Director of the City Institute (2013-2023). She is PI on the SSHRC Partnership Grant, Urbanisation, gender and the global south: a transformative knowledge network (GenUrb), a Trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation, and an Associate Editor on the AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography. Her latest publications include the books Urbanisation in a Global Context. 2nd edition (edited with Alison Bain, 2022) and A Feminist Urban Theory for our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban (edited with Elsa Koleth, Gokboru Tanyildiz, Raj Narayanareddy, and darren patrick, 2021), and the forthcoming Elgar Handbook on Gender and Cities (edited with Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin and Anindita Datta). Nasya Razavi is a Postdoctoral Fellow with GenUrb (2019-2024) and is lead researcher on the Cochabamba City Research Team (CRT). She is currently the Latin America Program Manager at Inter Pares, a feminist social justice organization based in Ottawa. Nasya completed her PhD at the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, in 2019, which she has published with Routledge as Water Governance in Bolivia: Cochabamba since the Water War. Nasya adopts a feminist decolonial approach to her work in international development, gender, and environmental and social justice. Araby Smyth is a Postdoctoral Fellow with GenUrb (2021-2024), researching place ecologies of finance and debt. She completed her PhD in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. Her research has been funded by the Antipode Foundation, National Science Foundation (USA), and Society of Woman Geographers. She has published in geography journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. She is an editor on the Editorial Collective of the journal ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.