Doing Feminist Urban Research: Insights from the GenUrb Project

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 realities of the practice of feminist urban research for the 21st century via the insights of the GenUrb transnational research project. Through refection exercises based on real-life examples, it covers feminist methodologies and research techniques, critically examining the ‘feld’ through comparison and feminist geo-ethnographies. It guides readers through navigating the politics of decolonising research, working across diferences, and embracing feminist ethics and activism. The book also explores data through the practices of translation, data management, data analysis, and the use of NVivo. And it further introduces professional standards, including EDI, collaboration with partners, engagement in teamwork, the handling of crises, such as pandemics, and knowledge mobilisation, including utilising social media. Accompanying web resources will assist scholars and students with additional audio fles 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 practitioners in urban studies, geography, gender and women’s studies, sociology, anthropology, global studies, and development studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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

About the Author :
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), A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban (edited with Elsa Koleth, Gökbörü 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 S. Razavi was 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 organisation 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 was a postdoctoral fellow with GenUrb (2021–2024), researching place ecologies of fnance and debt. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University. 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.