Feminist ethnography in the study of religion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn Gillson
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Ethnography

scholarly journals Female street vendors’ (dis)engagement with politics in Rwanda – Orientalising women’s political participation

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-117
Author(s):  
Xia Nan JIN
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Gender Quotas ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Feminist Ethnography ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Political Decision Making ◽  
Women's Political Participation

Women’s political participation was initiated as an instrument for gender equality yet now is under research scrutiny. Due to gender quotas and other institutionalization of women’s political inclusion, Rwanda has the highest number of women in its parliament – 67%. But is women’s political participation a real tool for gender equality, or is it one that through the artificial guise of women’s political representation sets up an exclusive political space? Apart from women who work in political institutions, who else are participating in politics and how and where are they engaging with politics? Feminists should claim back this discussion, reject neoliberal approach to ‘empower’ women and propose a more distributive and collective agenda. As part of my PhD project regarding women’s (dis)engagement with politics in Rwanda, female vendors drew my attention during my fieldwork in Rwanda. In Rwanda, female vendors are among the groups who are the ‘furthest’ to participate and influence the political decision-making process, yet are heavily influenced by various political policies on a daily base. For example, the by-law forbidding street vendors was initiated in 2015 and further enforced in 2017 was designed to punish street vendors because they build “unfair competition for customers with legitimate businesses paying rent and taxes” . Consequently, many female vendors face a great deal of violence by local forces. Using feminist ethnography as the methodology, I choose visual methods to tell the stories of female vendors. That is, the photography project is designed to elicit stories of ‘what happened when’, and to encourage participants to ‘remember’ past events, and past dynamics on the street, as well as to express their own opinions and ideas. My task is to reconstruct the process of female street vendor’s engagement with politics and in doing so deconstruct the fake formal image of female political participation in Rwanda.

Can there be a feminist ethnography?

1988 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Stacey
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Ethnography

Digital Migrating and Storyworlding with Women We Love: A Feminist Ethnography

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 745-776
Author(s):  
Barbara Dennis ◽  
Lucinda Carspecken ◽  
Pengfei Zhao ◽  
Samantha Silberstein ◽  
Pooja Saxena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Feminist Ethnography ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Complex Study ◽  
Women's Lives

This contemporary feminist ethnography draws on in-depth ethnographically-anchored lifestory interviews with loved ones and uses digital media (such as ArcGIS) to expand the ethnographic collection around the globe. Members of the FRC conceived of the WomenWeLove Project as an opportunity for the lesser-told stories of six ordinary women from different places to take center stage. By digitizing the stories, researchers and participants are able to join in the use of public digitalizations (like the #MeToo movement) to connect through empowering ethnographic efforts. Their stories are contextualized within and across one another as a complex study of women’s lives in geopolitical heterosexism and patriarchy. The name of the project, WomenWeLove, both honors those we are writing about and acknowledges love as methodologically salient. It is unusual to conduct studies of any kind within the context of such close researcher/participant relationships. At the intersection of ethnography and love, emerges the methodological innovation of migratory storyworlding. The paper contributes to our contemporary ethnographic theories and practices by committing to love as a methodologically interesting orientation toward one’s research, examining the migratory and digitized possibilities for ethnography, and by introducing a migratory storyworlding methodology.

The Quilt: Towards a twenty-first-century black feminist ethnography

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Renée Alexander Craft ◽  
Meida Mcneal ◽  
Mshaï S. Mwangola ◽  
Queen Meccasia E. Zabriskie
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Feminist Ethnography ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Twenty First Century
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