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