Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mobilisation.

Linda Peake, FRSC, is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York
University, Toronto, Canada where she was also Director of the City Institute (2013-2023). She is
PI on the SSHRC Partnership Grant, Urbanisation, gender and the global south: a transformative
knowledge network (GenUrb), a Trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation, and an Associate Editor on
the AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography. Her latest publications include the books
Urbanisation in a Global Context (2nd edition, edited with Alison Bain, 2022), A Feminist Urban
Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban (edited with Elsa Koleth, Gökbörü
Tanyildiz, Raj Narayanareddy, and darren patrick, 2021), and the forthcoming Elgar Handbook on
Gender and Cities (edited with Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin and Anindita
Datta).

Nasya S. Razavi was a postdoctoral fellow with GenUrb (2019-2024) and is lead researcher on the Cochabamba City Research Team (CRT). She is currently the Latin America Program Manager at Inter Pares, a feminist social justice organisation based in Ottawa. Nasya completed her PhD at the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, in 2019, which she has published with Routledge as Water Governance in Bolivia: Cochabamba since the Water War. Nasya adopts a feminist decolonial approach to her work in international development, gender, and environmental and social justice.

Araby Smyth was a postdoctoral fellow with GenUrb (2021-2024), researching place ecologies of fnance and debt. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University. Her research has been funded by the Antipode Foundation,National Science Foundation (USA), and Society of Woman Geographers. She has published in geography journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. She is an editor on the Editorial Collective of the journal ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.

Introducing GenUrb,

Linda Peake, Araby Smyth, and Nasya S. Razavi

Part I. The building blocks for decolonising feminist urban research

Chapter 1. Feminist comparative urban research

Linda Peake, Mel Mikhail, and Elsa Koleth

Chapter 2. Decolonising feminist knowledge production

Elsa Koleth and Linda Peake

Chapter 3. Feminist engagements with translation

Wiley Sharp

Chapter 4. Feminist scholar-activism

Mantha Katsikana

Part II. The context of 21st-century feminist urban research and policy

Chapter 5. Feminist urban research in the time of COVID-19

Mel Mikhail

Chapter 6. Feminist urban policy and the Sustainable Development Goals

Nasya S. Razavi and Linda Peake

Part III. Feminist research standards

Chapter 7. Feminist research ethics

Linda Peake and Wiley Sharp

Chapter 8. Professional standards in feminist research

Araby Smyth

Chapter 9. Partnerships and teamwork in feminist collaborations

Araby Smyth

Chapter 10. Data management in feminist research projects

Mel Mikhail

Part IV. Feminist methodologies and research methods

Chapter 11. Feminist methodologies and methods

Linda Peake and Mel Mikhail

Chapter 12. Feminist approaches to fieldwork

Araby Smyth, Elsa Koleth and Linda Peake

Chapter 13. Feminist geo-ethnography

Araby Smyth and Linda Peake

Chapter 14. Feminist interviews

Araby Smyth,Elsa Koleth, and Linda Peake

Part V. Feminist data analysis

Chapter 15. Feminist practices of translation and interpreting

Carmen Ponce

Chapter 16. Feminist approaches to qualitative data analysis

Linda Peake and Elsa Koleth

Chapter 17. Software-aided analysis for feminist research

Biftu Yousuf

Chapter 18. Using NVivo in feminist research

Biftu Yousef

Part VI. Feminist approaches to knowledge mobilisation

Chapter 19. Knowledge mobilisation in a feminist project

Araby Smyth, Linda Peake, and Jenna Blower

Chapter 20. Feminist engagement with social media

Mantha Katsikana