Reviewing Methods Studying Violence in Women’s ‘Everyday’

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Sudarshana Sen
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Standpoint ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Dorothy Smith ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Methodological Position

Every day of all individuals subsumed under the everydays of society. The mundane, the repetitive individual’s everyday is challenged when it becomes the starting point studying the unorganised every day. Looking at the repetitiveness character of everyday, this article questions the involvement of the forces of domination in women’s lives. Taking a feminist standpoint this article deals with the reverse, ‘transposing knowing into objective forms in which the situated subject and her actual experiences and location are discarded’. A concept developed by Dorothy Smith, ‘relations of ruling’ is used in this article to understand how the everyday repetitive struggles of women against violence can be studied, what methodological position, which methods of studying can be considered appropriate.

The Mainstreaming of Postmodernism: A Status Report on the "New" Scholarship in CanadaPARACHUTE: ART CONTEMPORAINI CONTEMPORARY ART.STRUGGLES WITH THE IMAGE. Philip Monk. Toronto: YYZ Books, 1989.A POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM: HISTORY, THEORY AND FICTION. Linda Hutcheon. London and New York: Routledge, 1988.THE CANADIAN POSTMODERN: A STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH-CANADIAN FICTION. Linda Hutcheon. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988.FUTURE INDICATIVE: LITERARY THEORY AND CANADIAN LITERATURE. Ed. John Moss. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1987.GYNOCRITICS: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO WRITING BY CANADIAN AND QUEBECOISE WOMEN. Ed. Barbara Godard. Toronto: ECW Press, 1987.A MAZING SPACE: WRITING CANADIAN WOMEN WRITING. Ed. Shirley Neuman and Smaro Kamboureli. Edmonton: Longspoon and NeWest, 1986.FEMINIST RESEARCH: PROSPECT AND RETROSPECT. Ed. Peta Tancred-Sheriff. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1988.THE EVERYDAY WORLD AS PROBLEMATIC: A FEMINIST SOCIOLOGY. Dorothy Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.THE POSTMODERN SCENE: EXCREMENTAL CULTURE AND HYPER-AESTHETICS. Arthur Kroker and David Cook. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1985.CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEORY.BODY INVADERS: PANIC SEX IN AMERICA. Ed. Arthur Kroker and Mari-louise Kroker. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1987.

1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-173
Author(s):  
Gaile McGregor
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New World ◽  
Status Report ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Feminist Sociology ◽  
Dorothy Smith ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Prospect ◽  
English Canadian

Toward a transnational feminist methodology of encounter

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Insight Into

In this article I discuss my experiences conducting fieldwork in Nicaragua over two summers as a starting point for thinking about a feminist methodology of encounters. A feminist methodology of encounters directs our attention to the ways in which research work consists of multiple, fragmented and complex encounters between experiencing subjects. In this article I suggest that a feminist methodology of encounters provides pedagogical insight into how researchers can be situated ‘between’ participants and sites of research. In particular, in my research it is not only an examination of ‘betweenness’ in that I am looking to the everyday uncertainties of encounters, but also that my work often became situated as ‘between’ hosts and volunteers. The problematic is to attend to the ways in which encounters are never fully accomplished or predetermined, but also that they happen between actors, as did both my research and the process of researching. This methodology attends to the important political dimensions of this ‘betweenness’.

Marking failure, making space: feminist interventions in Security Council policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (6) ◽  
pp. 1289-1306
Author(s):  
Sam Cook
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Creative Interventions ◽  
Exquisite Corpse ◽  
Central Station

Abstract Feminist interventions in international politics are, more often than not, understood (and visible) as interventions in relation to policy documents. These policies—in this case the United Nations Security Council's resolutions on Women, Peace and Security—often feature as the end point of feminist advocacy efforts or as the starting point for feminist analysis and critique. In this article the author responds to the provocations throughout Marysia Zalewski's work to think (and tell) the spaces of international politics differently, in this case by working with the concept of feminist failure as it is produced in feminist policy critique. Inspired by Zalewski's Feminist International Relations: exquisite corpse, the article explores the material and imaginary spaces in which both policies and critique are produced. It picks up and reflects upon a narrative refrain recognizable in feminist critiques on Women, Peace and Security policy—that we must not make war safe for women—as a way to reflect on the inevitability of failure and the ostensible boundaries between theory and practice. The author takes permission from Zalewski's creative interventions and her recognition of the value of the ‘detritus of the everyday’—here a walk from New York's Grand Central Station to the UN Headquarters, musings on the flash of a particular shade of blue, and the contents of a footnoted acknowledgement, begin to trace an international political space that is produced through embodied and quotidian practice.

“The synapses colapse; well, let them…” el feminismo postmoderno de the stone diaries de Carol Shields

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Macarena Garcia-Avello
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Feminist Standpoint ◽  
Carol Shields ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Political Function ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Way

Este artículo examina la manera en que la metaficción postmoderna de Carol Shields en The Stone Diaries sirve de punto de partida para una crítica feminista desde la que se explora el carácter relacional y fragmentario del sujeto femenino. Aunque la crítica haya incidido en la vertiente feminista de la novela de Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, el papel que juega el postmodernismo en la crítica feminista ha pasado desapercibido. El objetivo de este artículo es, por tanto, ahondar en la manera en que el feminismo se intercala con el postmodernismo en la obra de Shields. A lo largo de este  se demostrará cómo la confluencia entre la condición postmoderna y la construcción de la subjetividad de la protagonista proporciona a la obra una función política. Palabras clave: postmodernismo, feminismo, política, The Stone Diaries   This article examines the way in which postmodern metafiction in Carol Shields´ s The Stone Diaries can be understood as a starting point to explore the relational and fragmentary subjectivity from a feminist standpoint. Although most analysis on The Stone Diaries put an emphasis on the importance of feminism, the influence of postmodernism in Shields´s novel has been commonly overlooked. This article aims to delve into the interaction between feminism and postmodernism in order to demonstrate how this interplay provides the novel with a political function.   Key words: postmodernism, feminism, politics, The Stone Diaries.  

scholarly journals Uncertain Subjects: Shaping Disabled Women’s Lives Through Income Support Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-103
Author(s):  
Sally A. Kimpson
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
Disability Income

This article provides a critical reading of one aspect of the “third mobilization of transinstitutionalization” (Haley & Jones, 2018), focused on how power is exercised through the B.C. government income support program (or the ambiguously-named B.C. Benefits), shaping the embodied lives of women living with chronic physical and mental impairments. I research and write as a woman living with a disabling chronic illness whose explicit focus is power: how it is enacted and what it produces in the everyday lives of women with disabling chronic conditions living on income support. I too have been the recipient of disability income support. Thus, my accounts are ‘interested.’ My writing seeks to create a disruptive reading that destabilizes common-sense notions about disabled women securing provincial income support benefits, in particular in British Columbia (B.C.), interviewed as part of my doctoral research. Despite public claims by the B.C. government to foster the independence, community participation, and citizenship of disabled people in B.C., the intersection of government policy and practices and how they are read and taken up by disabled women discipline them in ways that produce profound uncertainty in their lives, such that these women become uncertain subjects (Kimpson, 2015).

Interface as Utopia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Leruth
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Personal Preference ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Utopian Thinking ◽  
Visual Projection ◽  
The Ideal

The Conclusion looks more closely at the utopian thread that runs through Forest’s artistic practice beginning with an overview of his lifelong preoccupation with immaterial forms of territoriality and his personal preference for more “realistic” forms of utopia. After outlining the symptoms of a postmodern crisis in western utopian thinking in its dominant perspectival form emphasizing visual projection, collective projects, and social-technological progress, it goes on to examine the ways in which Forest’s art represents a fundamental reconfiguration of the notion of utopia that differs from the enfeebled western paradigm in several important respects. Foremost among these differences is that Forest puts utopia in reverse by making utopia (i.e., the everyday pseudo-utopia of the modern mediascape, which he subjects to defamiliarizing realism) the mundane starting point rather than the ideal culmination of his utopian artistic practice. The Conclusion closes with a retrospective look at Forest’s body of work through the lens of the four main types of utopian interfaces he creates: the specular interface, the subversive interface, the metacommunicational interface, and the liminal interface.

What’s Epistemology Got to Do With It?

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-507
Author(s):  
Richard K. Caputo
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Intervention Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Feminist Standpoint ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Standpoint Epistemology ◽  
Structural Aspects

Feminist standpoint epistemology is neither a necessary nor a sufficient starting point for social work intervention research. Contemporary social scientists readily grapple with cultural, political, and/or structural aspects of social problems either in the absence of or in conjunction with an explicitly formulated feminist standpoint epistemology. The article also argues against privileging any group’s voice for purposes of social work intervention research, including the voices of marginalized and oppressed groups whose judgments, perceptions, and statement of facts are as prone to error or likely to be as mistaken as anyone else’s.

scholarly journals Commitment, Convergence, Alterity

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-124
Author(s):  
Daan Beekers
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Similar Dynamic

This contribution looks comparatively at the everyday pursuit of religious commitment among young, revivalist-oriented Sunni Muslims and Protestant Christians in the Netherlands. In both public debates and academic scholarship, the differences between these groups tend to be stressed, particularly through dichotomies such as migrant/native and minority/majority. This article, by contrast, takes their potential common ground as a starting point by examining the pursuit of religious aspirations under shared conditions of consumer capitalism and cultural pluralism. I argue that my Christian and Muslim interlocutors experienced a noticeably similar dynamic of constraint on and reinvigoration of their faith. Further, I note the different degrees to which they emphasized their moral distinctiveness, and discuss how this disparity is related to dominant public representations of these groups.

scholarly journals Thrift, Imperfection and Popular Feminist Apartment Plot on Television

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 501-516
Author(s):  
Claire Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Women's Lives

This paper will explore the ways in which thrift operates as a signifier of a specific type of lprecarity and imperfection in young women’s lives in several popular series associated with the current ‘golden age’ of women’s television production. The twenty-something women of series including Girls, Insecure, Broad City, Fleabag, Can’t Cope Won’t Cope and Search Party, have all been raised in comfortable middle-class homes and are now living independently in major global, expensive cities. The precarity of the ways in which they dwell, at both a practical and figurative level, is a symptom of what has come to be understood as ‘adulting’—where relatively privileged millennials struggle with the rituals and realities of adult life in a starkly neoliberal society. Through a focus on the narrative device of the apartment plot, this paper will examine how the concept of thrift, with its central spectrum of necessity and choice, can illuminate both the everyday practices and the overarching logic of the adulting phenomenon as represented in this wave of television production. By attending to a variety of contemporary series by, for and about women, it will also argue for the ways in which both thrift and adulting can be understood as specifically gendered behaviours.

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