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Engaging with feminist postcolonial concerns through participatory action research and intersectionality

Schurr, Carolin; Segebart, Dörte (2012). Engaging with feminist postcolonial concerns through participatory action research and intersectionality. Geographica Helvetica, 67(3):147-154.

Abstract

This paper deals with the challenges of doing fieldwork as a Western researcher in the “Global South” after the (feminist) postcolonial turn. Debates within developmental geography have addressed the politics of fieldwork, questions of positionality and collaborative, participatory ways to produce knowledge. We intend to enter this discussion to find constructive ways of conducting feminist postcolonial research. Drawing on our own experiences as German researchers and development practitioners in Latin America, we discuss the potential and limits of two central feminist postcolonial approaches in development research and practice: participatory (action) research and intersectionality. Our reflections aim to show how development research and practice may benefit from integrating feminist postcolonial approaches.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
Dewey Decimal Classification:910 Geography & travel
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Global and Planetary Change
Social Sciences & Humanities > Geography, Planning and Development
Social Sciences & Humanities > Anthropology
Physical Sciences > Earth-Surface Processes
Language:English
Date:2012
Deposited On:29 Apr 2015 14:49
Last Modified:06 Feb 2025 04:35
Publisher:Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft
ISSN:0016-7312
OA Status:Gold
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-67-147-2012
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