[Air-L] New anthology: Everyday Feminist Research Praxis

Tue Sep 23 03:50:25 PDT 2014

Apologies for cross-posting dear colleagues.

I'm excited to announce the publication of the following anthology edited by Domitilla Olivieri (Utrecht University, Netherlands) and Koen Leurs (LSE, UK)

EVERYDAY FEMINIST RESEARCH PRAXIS. Doing Gender in the Netherlands

Everyday Feminist Research Praxis: Doing Gender in The Netherlands offers a selection of previously unpublished work presented during the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) conferences. Reflecting the wide spectrum of interdisciplinary gender studies, this volume is organised into four sections along four conceptual knots. These thematic entry-points are space/time, affectivity, public/private, and technological mediation. The central emphasis of this volume is twofold: first, the everyday is approached as a concretely grounded site of micro-political power struggles. Second, the contributors make explicit connections between theory and their everyday feminist research practices. They provide a reflexive account of their research, and put into words what drives them.
     The relation between theory and practice has been a key concern of feminist research in recent decades. The two domains are here not considered as oppositional, but rather contributors chart their interconnections and entanglements. The authors cover a wide topical area that includes, amongst others, digital representations of women movements; European homonationalism; fashion modelling and labour; sexual identities; child-birthing discourses; digital documentaries; fan fiction; and the post-human. As a whole, the interventions show how feminist research praxis remains crucial in critically disentangling naturalized routines of daily life, which in turn enables the scrutiny of, for example, the arbitrariness of entrenched power relations and the revealing of contradictory and layered, personal and collective, everyday trajectories. Everyday feminist research praxis, thus, energises possibilities for new forms of recognition, representation and redistribution of power.

HARDBACK
ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6011-6
ISBN-10: 1-4438-6011-5
Date of Publication: 01/08/2014

MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/everyday-feminist-research-praxis

SAMPLE CHAPTER: INTRODUCTION AVAILABLE FOR FREE IN PDF FORMAT:
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/61775

REVIEWS:
“A significant contribution to the field, this rich interdisciplinary collection shows the timely importance of feminist scholarship today. It provides the exhilarating scope, theoretical vigor and state-of-the-art scholarship I connect with feminist scholars that traverse Dutch Gender Studies. The overall result provides original takes on topics at the core of present feminist debates – from which scholars and students in many interdisciplinary humanities and social science disciplines will learn immensely. There is of course a risk in reading it; nothing about your everyday life will ever appear mundane again.”
—Cecilia Åsberg, Associate Professor of Gender Studies (Tema Genus), Linköping University;
Founding Director, The Posthumanities Hub; Co-Director, GEXcel International Collegium

“This lively volume will come as a breath of fresh air to readers of many different feminist persuasions in many different parts of the world. Rigorously non-universalizing, the authors revel in the irreducible diversity of the micro politics of gender at sites that range from transnational library projects to online porn sites, from Mandarin-speaking mothers in the Netherlands to a struggle over gay marriage that leaves the nominative “Europe” in a legal shambles. Modeling rich intergenerational as well as transnational and interdisciplinary intra-actions, the essays evoke a universe of new possibilities for feminist exploration. The conversation among pioneering feminist scholars of my own generation that comprises the Epilogue moved me deeply and gives all that comes before it an astonishing depth of field.”
—Prof. Marguerite Waller, Chair, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
SECTION I: NEGOTIATING SPACE-TIME

Preface section 1: Negotiating Space-Time
Louis van den Hengel

1.     Webs of Feminist Knowledge Online: Representations of the Women’s Movement in Digital Documents and Monuments
Sanne Koevoets

2.     What is European about Homonationalism: Thinking Through the Italian Case
Gianmaria Colpani and Adriano José Habed

3.     Irigarayan Insights on the Problem of LGBT Inequality: How Re-Imagining Difference can Facilitate Respect for Others
Louise Richardson-Self

4.     Performing (Readings of) Moving Across as Decolonial Praxis
Heather Hermant

SECTION II: THE MATTER OF AFFECT

Preface section II: The Matter of Affect
Iris van der Tuin

5.     Tracing the Roots of the Fashion Image: Fashion Models as Fashion Workers, Immaterial Production and Affective Transmission
Eline van Uden

6.     “I Didn’t Know That I Do Not Know”: Writing the Feminine in Anne Enright’s What Are You Like
Mariëlle Smith

7.     Intimate Encounters in Fuses and One Night Stand
Sara Jansen

8.     When the Personal Meets the Theoretical: Reflections on My Conversations With Luce Irigaray
Krizia Nardini

SECTION III: NEGOTIATING PRIVATE-PUBLIC

Preface section III: Negotiating Private-Public
Liza Mügge

9.     In the Service of Modernity. The Gendered Deployment of Premarital Sexuality in the Processes of Identification Among the Iranian Dutch
Rahil Roodsaz

10.   Bargaining Between Husbands and Societies: The Obstacles and Difficulties of Chinese Mothers Teaching their Children Mandarin in the Netherlands
Shu-Yi Huang

11.   A Narrative Analysis of the Experiences of Women on Antiretroviral Therapy in the Mopani District of the Limpopo Province: Comparing Private and Public Institutions in South Africa
Tiny Petunia Mona

12.   Public-Private Boundaries and Gendered Codes in Limiting Institutional Childbirth in Rural Bangladesh
Runa Laila

SECTION IV: NEGOTIATING TECHNOLOGIES AND MEDIATIONS

Preface section IV: Negotiating Technologies and Mediations
Kathrin Thiele

13.   In the Intervals Between ‘Now’ and ‘Then,’, ‘Here’ and ‘There’: Transnational Spaces Performed and Reimagined in Digital Hybrid Documentary
Domitilla Olivieri

14.   Scholarship as Geek Feminism: Subverting Gender and Sexuality in Glee Fan Fiction
Nicolle Lamerichs

15.   “A Shock to Thought”: The Affects of an Online Encounter with Posthuman Imagery
Simone van Hulst

16.   Wired Fingers, Sticky Keyboards: Towards an Embodied Approach to Internet Pornography
Goda Klumbytė

EPILOGUE

17.   A Dialogue on the Dilemmas of Feminist Research Praxis
Koen Leurs, Rosemarie Buikema, Willy Jansen and Lies Wesseling

Koen Leurs, PhD
| Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies
Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON)
Utrecht University  |

www.koenleurs.net <https://mail.lse.ac.uk/owa/www.koenleurs.net>
http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/WhosWho/AcademicStaff/Koen-Leurs.aspx

Recent publications:
* Leurs, K. & Olivieri, D. (Eds.), (2014). Everyday Feminist Research Praxis<http://www.cambridgescholars.com/everyday-feminist-research-praxis>. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

* Leurs, K. (2014). The politics of transnational affective capital: Digital connectivity among young Somalis stranded in Ethiopia<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=17789/>. In K. Leurs & S. Ponzanesi (Eds.). Crossings, Journal of  Migration and Culture, 4 (1), p. 87-104.

* Ponzanesi, S. & Leurs, K.  (2014). Special issue: Digital Crossings in Europe<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2682/>. Crossings, Journal of  Migration