You Are My Way to the Universe: Critical Collective Research Through Feminist Community Building

Abstract: In this article, we draw on the scholarship of feminist communitarianism to develop a critique of the predominant neoliberal qualitative social research collaboration model. We argue that feminist theories and praxis about community building and political activism have the potential to transcend the highly institutionalized, individualistic, and managerialist collaborative culture. Feminist insights can help today's researchers navigate collaborative research and address key issues such as reflexivity, consensus formation, knowledge validation, and group solidarity. We use our own work in the Feminist Research Collective and in the WomenWeLove project to present an alternative orientation and a collective way to enact transformative research. This feminist intervention against the neoliberal research culture contributes to the ongoing reflections of how we produce knowledge via qualitative social research and why we shall do so in the current historical juncture, expands our imagin

Alternative title
Du bist mein Weg zum Universum: Kritische kollektive Forschung durch feministische Gemeinschaftsbildung
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research ; 23 (2022) 3

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(who)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(when)
2022
Creator
Zhao, Pengfei
Palmer, Dajanae
Silberstein, Samantha
Elfreich, Alycia
Bose, Suparna
Washington, Sylvia
Saxena, Pooja
Carspecken, Lucinda
Dennis, Barbara

DOI
10.17169/fqs-23.3.3892
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2406270903021.690590526157
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
Last update
14.08.2025, 10:48 AM CEST

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Associated

  • Zhao, Pengfei
  • Palmer, Dajanae
  • Silberstein, Samantha
  • Elfreich, Alycia
  • Bose, Suparna
  • Washington, Sylvia
  • Saxena, Pooja
  • Carspecken, Lucinda
  • Dennis, Barbara
  • SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.

Time of origin

  • 2022

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