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(1/n) Had a local org ask me about my ethics & extractive research yesterday & I couldn't be more proud seeing orgs raise issues around accountability & research ethics.
(I will be posting research updates using this thread in case you wanna know what I am doing in Kenya)
(I will be posting research updates using this thread in case you wanna know what I am doing in Kenya)
2/n Privileged to join @AkiliDada this morning in Kilifi. Young women are presenting well thought out solutions to community challenges. Also, good to see young women workshop each others projects. Already impressed! #SafeSpaces4Women #genderequality #genderjustice
(3/n) spent the afternoon talking to a friend (who is in finance) about my research. I got so many good insights & I got to look at my work from a new point of view. Didn't realize how important it is to talk about research w friends who are not in the same field. (Thanks Matt)
(4/n) legal frameworks & safe spaces for young women: from my convo w @fidakenya it is vital to have legal frameworks AND also do the work to ensure laws are implemented & that women are able to claim their rights within those legal frameworks. Thanks FIDA for answering my ques.
(5/n) culture keeps coming up as a limit to safe spaces for young women. From my convos w orgs & young women, before designing projects we need to speak w communities about their cultural beliefs & practices. There is more to culture so nonprofits need to LISTEN to communities.
(6/n) an unanticipated break from interviews and focus groups due to #COVID19. Gonna take this time to do some initial data analysis (and maybe write some fiction?)
(7/n) have had to reorganize my research schedule because of #COVID19. Now that I am working my way through data I am amazed (but not surprised) by how nuanced the insights from women and women-led orgs are! #SafeSpaces4Women #GenderJustice #SDG5
(8/n) research updates in the middle of a pandemic:
still in nairobi
got ethics approval to do remote interviews (great...for the most part)
started feeling stuck (possibly hitting point of saturation?)
decided to go back to lit to see what folks say about safe spaces
still in nairobi
got ethics approval to do remote interviews (great...for the most part)
started feeling stuck (possibly hitting point of saturation?)
decided to go back to lit to see what folks say about safe spaces
(9/n) have found some key lit on #SafeSpaces4Women. Adding some here for anyone interested but also for myself.
(also, if you wanna add onto this go right ahead - academic & non-academic stuff welcome)
Okay, here we go:
(also, if you wanna add onto this go right ahead - academic & non-academic stuff welcome)
Okay, here we go:
(10/n)
Safe Space: Towards a Reconceptualization by The Roestone Collective https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.12089
Safe Space: Towards a Reconceptualization by The Roestone Collective https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.12089
(11/n)
Sexualized productions of Space by @GlsmBaydar https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2012.675472
Sexualized productions of Space by @GlsmBaydar https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2012.675472
(12/n)
Critiquing the Rhetoric of "Safety" in Feminist Pedagogy: Women of Colour Offering an Account of Ourselves by Kyoko Kishimoto & Mumbi Mwangi.
(this is great for positionality and personal reflexivity)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40546084?seq=1
Critiquing the Rhetoric of "Safety" in Feminist Pedagogy: Women of Colour Offering an Account of Ourselves by Kyoko Kishimoto & Mumbi Mwangi.
(this is great for positionality and personal reflexivity)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40546084?seq=1
(13/n)
Locality and Social Representation: Space, discourse and alternative definitions of the rural by K.H. Halfacree
"space is produced but also space (re)produces space, structures & ultimately society" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0743016793900033
Locality and Social Representation: Space, discourse and alternative definitions of the rural by K.H. Halfacree
"space is produced but also space (re)produces space, structures & ultimately society" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0743016793900033
(14/n)
Womyn's separatist spaces: rethinking spaces of difference and exclusion by Katherine Browne
"Particular societal hierarchies are (re)created in and by space" (true, which is how safe spaces can also be unsafe spaces for particular people) https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/womyns-separatist-spaces-rethinking-spaces-of-difference-and-excl
Womyn's separatist spaces: rethinking spaces of difference and exclusion by Katherine Browne
"Particular societal hierarchies are (re)created in and by space" (true, which is how safe spaces can also be unsafe spaces for particular people) https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/womyns-separatist-spaces-rethinking-spaces-of-difference-and-excl
(15/n)
Space, sexual violence and social control: integrating geographical and feminist analyses of women's fear of crime by Rachel Pain.
"...society retains control of the subordinate group ... by restricting their movements, behavior and activities." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030913259101500403?journalCode=phgb
Space, sexual violence and social control: integrating geographical and feminist analyses of women's fear of crime by Rachel Pain.
"...society retains control of the subordinate group ... by restricting their movements, behavior and activities." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030913259101500403?journalCode=phgb
(16/n)
'Safe Spaces': Experiences of Feminist Women-only Space https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.5153/sro.3781
'Safe Spaces': Experiences of Feminist Women-only Space https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.5153/sro.3781
(17/n) okay that's it for now. back to reading.
(18/n) Been a minute.
Finished sifting through data.
We now have an outline and deadlines for the thesis. & writing has started.
Also, I have the best advisors. So grateful for them. #SafeSpaces4Women #AcademicChatter
Finished sifting through data.
We now have an outline and deadlines for the thesis. & writing has started.
Also, I have the best advisors. So grateful for them. #SafeSpaces4Women #AcademicChatter
(19/n) This piece on the universal "we" by @MaxLiboiron is informing how I am thinking (and writing) about the creation of safe spaces.
https://discardstudies.com/2020/10/12/theres-no-such-thing-as-we/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
#SafeSpaces4Women #genderequality
https://discardstudies.com/2020/10/12/theres-no-such-thing-as-we/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
#SafeSpaces4Women #genderequality
