Feministing in Political Science

Feministing in Political Science examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university. This critique of mainstream Canadian political science pushes beyond typical studies of institutions and political life. Instead, the collection draws together personal essays, pedagogical interventions, dialogues, and original research to reflect on how "feministing" as an orientation and as an analytic can centre experiential knowledge and reshape our understandings of political science. Collectively, these contributions lay bare the ways that power moves in and through the academy, naming the impacts on those who are most structurally precarious, all while pointing to futures available to us through refusal, solidarity, and hope.

Contributors: Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Julianne M. Acker-Verney, Kelly Aguirre, Jeanette Ashe, Nicole S. Bernhardt, Amanda Bittner, Alana Cattapan, Elaine Coburn, Jamilah A.Y. Dei-Sharpe, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Nick Dorzweiler, Tammy Findlay, Mariam Georgis, Emily Grafton, Joyce Green, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Kiera L. Ladner, Lindsay Larios, Manon Laurent, Fiona MacDonald, April Mandrona, Kimberley Ens Manning, Sarah Munawar, Nisha Nath, Michael Orsini, Stephanie Paterson, Tka C. Pinnock, David Semaan, Gina Starblanket, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Melanee Thomas, Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Ethel Tungohan, Nadia Verrelli, Leah F. Vosko, and Chamindra Weerawardhana. Feministing in Political Science examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university. 15 B&W images



• Acknowledgements


• Introduction: Disrupting Political Science Through Feministing? / Ethel Tungohan, Nisha Nath, Stephanie Paterson, Alana Cattapan, Fiona MacDonald


• Temporality and the Case for Transformation


• 1. "Diversity Is Important, but Only When it is the 'Right' Type of Diversity": Canadian Political Science and the Limitations of an Additive Approach to Equity / Ethel Tungohan


• 2. Being "Reasonable" (whilst Feminist and Black) within the Neoliberal University / Nicole S. Bernhardt


• 3. The Fish and the Spider / Alana Cattapan


• 4. Anti-Racist and Indigenous Feminism and the Generative Power of Disruption / Elaine Coburn, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Joyce Green, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, and Gina Starblanket


• Relationality, Community, and Care


• 5. "Your Absence is Not an Accident: Storying Feminist Friendship from Dissonance to Dissidence" / Kelly Aguirre, Mariam Georgis, Sarah Munawar


• 6. Disrupting Feminism / Confronting Ableism / Michael Orsini


• 7. Indigenous Feminisms and Political Science: Indigenization and Epistemological Barriers to Inclusion / Emily Grafton


• 8. Feministing Online: Using the Internet to Learn New Things and Create Community / Amanda Bittner


• 9. Conversations in Feminist Solidarity: Reflecting on the Political Science PHD Experience / Lindsay Larios and Manon Laurent


• 10. Don't Be an Asshole / Stephanie Paterson


• Feministing and the "Real" World of Politics


• 11. Letters of Engagement: Learning from Our Efforts at Feministing Public Policy Deliberations / Julianne M. Acker-Verney, Alana Cattapan, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Tammy Findlay, and April Mandrona


• 12. Feministing: Lessons from Bill C-237, the Candidate Gender Equity Act / Jeanette Ashe


• 13. Feministing on the Campaign Trail: Dialogue with Kimberley Ens Manning, Nadia Verrelli, and Melanee Thomas / Edited by Alana Cattapan and Fiona MacDonald


• Gatekeeping, Pedagogy, and Mentoring


• 14. Radical Pedagogies for the Present: Vignettes on Decolonial Feminist Potentials in the Classroom / David Semaan


• 15. Reworlding the Canadian University: Centring Student Leadership in Institutional Transformation / Jamilah A.Y. Dei-Sharpe and Kimberley Ens Manning


• 16. Photovoice as Fem