Feminist methodologies: Workshop on field relations and methodological reflections (2022)

  • Description:

    This course on feminist methodologies addresses both those explicitly employing a poststructuralist feminist methodology, but also those simply curious about how such an approach may inform concrete fieldwork. The target group for the course includes both those about to do fieldwork and those who would like to engage in further reflection on the outcome of already accomplished fieldwork.

    The starting point for thinking in terms of feminist methodology is that as researchers we can never be simply ‘flies on the wall’ during fieldwork. Accepting this as a premise for doing fieldwork, how can such consciousness about our own position in the field be thought into our research design, analyses, and the entire research process?

    We wish to engage with PhD students who are producing/have produced qualitative material (e.g. in the form of interviews, observations, ethnographic field work etc.) and discuss how this aspect of their PhD work relates to their theoretical framework. Wishing to establish the link between the concrete fieldwork and more abstract theoretical and methodological assumptions, the course takes its starting point in two questions:1) What was/is my own position vis-à-vis my research participants in my own concrete fieldwork? 2) How do my methodological reflections establish the premises for producing qualitative material?

    NB: The course takes place immediately prior to the Danish Gender Research conference in Copenhagen on August 18-19th 2022: https://koensforskning.ku.dk/rammer/

  • Organizer
    :Marlene Spanger and Helene Pristed Nielsen, both from Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University

  • Lecturers:

    Clare Hemmings, professor of Feminist Theory, London School of Economics will teach together with the course coordinators Marlene Spanger and Helene Pristed Nielsen, both from Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University

  • ECTS: 

    Participation and preparation for the workshop (reading + pre-reflection paper): 2 ECTS

    Submission of post-reflection paper: +1 ECTS

  • Time:
    17th August 2022

  • Place:
    Aalborg University, Sydhavnen Campus, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, Copenhagen

  • City:
    Copenhagen

  • Number of seats: 25


  • Deadlines:

    Application deadline:  June 1st 2022

    Please note that to participate, you will need to send a 2-3 page ‘pre-reflection paper’ outlining initial ideas for answering our questions “1) What was/is my own position vis-à-vis my research participants in my own concrete fieldwork? 2) How do my methodological reflections establish the premises for producing qualitative material?” to pristed@dps.aau.dk Deadline for this is August 1st 2022

  • Contact:
    I    f you have questions please contact program secretary Marianne Høgsbro: inst.dps.phd@dps.aau.dk

  • Participatiom fee: Free of charge

    If you have questions. please contact Marianne Høgsbro: inst.issa.phd@socsci.aau.dk

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    The course is fully booked, please contact Marianne Høgsbro if you wish to be added to the waiting list.