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In this study we examine how doing research on gender impacts identity, sense of self, and relation to community; and how fieldwork is mediated by gender structures.
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Purpose
In this study we examine how doing research on gender impacts identity, sense of self, and relation to community; and how fieldwork is mediated by gender structures.
Methodology/approach
We draw on feminist epistemology, qualitative methodologies, and critical pedagogies to analyze the fieldwork experiences of 15 women students and nine men fieldwork partners in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.
Findings
By conducting fieldwork which challenged gender norms, students and partners gained greater awareness of themselves and confidence. Their actions challenged the appropriate place of women (and minority ethnicities) as perceived by research participants in these communities. The experience rendered the community a site of hope and learning for them, working to empower them as well as building relationships grounded in lived experiences with their communities.
Research limitation
Women’s voices are more prominent in this analysis than men’s.
Originality/value
This chapter points to the potentially empowering aspects of doing gender-related fieldwork in the developing context, as well as how gender and other power structures mediate fieldwork experiences in Muslim communities in South Asia.
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Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos
This introduction provides an overview of the themes and chapters of this volume.
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Purpose
This introduction provides an overview of the themes and chapters of this volume.
Research limitations/implications
The chapters illustrate current approaches to theories, research methods, pedagogy, and praxis in gender studies showing both continuity and change.
Practical/social implications
Newer approaches, gender-centered, intersectional, and global offer a critique of older ways of gathering and understanding data, ways that respond to and are impacted by social change.
Originality/value
The chapter and the volume are intended to encourage further advances in gender research.
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