scholarly journals Fan studies and/as feminist methodology

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Briony Hannell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Autobiographical Writing ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Ontology Building ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Feminist Cultural Studies

Feminist cultural studies and feminist theory in genealogies of fan studies are taken for granted. However, the implications of feminist methodological and epistemological frameworks within discussions of fan studies methodology are more often inferred than directly stated—or cited. Examining the parallel debates taking place around knowledge, power, and reflexivity within feminist theory, feminist cultural studies, and fan studies illustrates how key methodological approaches within fan studies are deeply grounded in feminist epistemology and ontology. Building on theorizations of the dual positionality of the acafan alongside feminist theorizations of self-reflexivity permits an exploration of how acafandom aligns with feminist methodological frameworks regarding researcher fragmentation and reflexivity. Emotion and affect are important concerns for acafan scholarship to address, as they align fan studies with feminist traditions of personal and autobiographical writing that privilege subjectivity as a legitimate source of knowledge. Explicitly reframing fan studies within this theoretical and methodological context augments the understanding of many of the fundamental beliefs and principles underpinning the production of knowledge within fan studies, and helps refine the critical language used to frame and describe scholarly methodologies.

A Question of Silence: Feminist Theory and Women's Voices

Philosophy ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Crary
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Recent Trends

This paper examines some recent trends in feminist epistemology. It argues that theories that make a priori claims to the effect that the structure of our body of knowledge must encode a masculine bias are both philosophically problematic and politically counterproductive, and it recommends a feminist methodology free from such general theoretical claims as best suited for the promotion of productive feminist thought and action.

“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124162110216
Author(s):  
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Power Inequality ◽  
Depth Interviews

Issues of power, inequality, and representation in the production of knowledge have a long history in transnational feminist research. And yet the unequal relationship between ethnographers and participants continues to haunt feminist research. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with the cooperative Sulá Batsú in Costa Rica between 2015 and 2019, in this essay I argue that centering solidarity and working through discomfort creates relationships that can reinvent and endure the persistent imbalance of power between researcher and participant. I conceptualize a solidarity-based methodology that is uncomfortable, tossing between "us and them," the objective and the subjective, akin to Gloria Anzaldúa’s “nepantla,” a liminal space of both fragmentation and unification, of both anguish and healing: a methodology from the cracks. In this essay, I reflect upon my experiences as a Puerto Rican feminist researcher focusing on Sulá Batsú, specifically on my relationship with the coop’s general coordinator. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the coop, including participant observation, in-depth interviews, and textual analysis of their research, briefs, blog posts, presentations, and promotional literature.

Whose Epidemiology, Whose Health?

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Wing
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Social History ◽  
Swine Production ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
External Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Causes Of Disease ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Simplistic claims about the objectivity of science have been challenged from a variety of perspectives. Evaluation of the external context of production of knowledge and the methodological approaches to posing questions and assembling evidence shows that there is no pure “science”; rather, all scientific knowledge is shaped by the social history of its production. Examples are given of how quantitative concepts in modern epidemiology influence the recognition of the causes of disease. The author uses the phenomenon of intensive swine production by vertically integrated agribusiness to illustrate how broad problems such as environmental racism, agricultural determinants of nutrition, loss of natural resources, and conditions conducive to emergence of new diseases are hidden by epidemiological approaches that fit into corporate policy perspectives. It is critically important to ask who produces epidemiological knowledge, and whose health is promoted by that knowledge.

Confessing Feminist Theory: What's “I” Got to Do with It?

Hypatia ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan David Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
First Person ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies

Confessional modes of self-representation have become crucial in feminist epistemologies that broaden and contextualize the location and production of knowledge. In some versions of confessional feminism, the insertion of “I” is reflective, the product of an uncomplicated notion of experience that shuttles into academic discourse apersonal truth. In contrast to reflective intrusions of the first person, reflexive confessing is primarily a questioning mode that imposes self-vigilance on the process of self positioning.

Muslim Girlhood, Skam Fandom, and DIY Citizenship

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-62
Author(s):  
Briony Hannell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
Popular Representations ◽  
Poststructural Analysis ◽  
Muslim Girls

While fandom is a dominant girlhood trope, few accounts examine faith in the context of girls’ fandom. Addressing this gap, using a feminist poststructural analysis, I draw on interviews and participant observation to locate fan communities as a space in which Muslim girls can enact citizenship. Combining youth cultural studies, girlhood studies, and fan studies, I explore how Muslim fangirls of the Norwegian teen web-drama Skam (2015–2017) draw on their desire for recognition and their creativity as cultural producers to engage in participatory storytelling that challenges popular representations of Muslim girls. This process enables the production of communities rooted in shared interests, experiences, and identities. I suggest that fandom should be recognized for its capacity to generate new meanings of citizenship for minority youth.

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