Feminist Geography: Methodological Approaches
Introduction to foundational approaches to feminist qualitative research in human geography, focusing on power, difference, and social change in research design.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Discuss the interplay between epistemology and methodology.
Explain clearly how their epistemological positions inform their methodological decisions.
Discuss the political dynamics shaping knowledge production, and how feminist, decolonial, and anti-racist projects have reshaped these dynamics.
Discuss the historical constructions of ‘the field,’ and how feminist critiques and research practices challenge expectations regarding field work experiences.
Discuss how feminist research ethics extend researchers’ ethical obligations of beneficence, respect for research subjects, and justice (Belmont Report).
Evaluate the virtues, dilemmas, and limitations of common qualitative methods.
Develop a compelling rationalization for research questions and methodologies (design) for your qualitative project.
Articulate how feminist principles influence your research questions and methodologies.
Explain how social positionality shapes the research process, and develop a practice of self-reflexivity.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
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- Power, difference, and social change in research design.
- Political-ethical discussions of researcher positionality and responsibilities.
- Historical constructions of 'the field' and feminist critiques of fieldwork expectations.
- Feminist research ethics extending beneficence, respect, and justice.
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- Discuss the interplay between epistemology and methodology.
- Discuss political dynamics of knowledge production and feminist, decolonial, and anti-racist critiques.
- Develop a rationale for qualitative research questions and methodological design.
- Explain how social positionality shapes research and develop self-reflexivity.
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