Collaborative Methods

Collaborative Methods explores the intersections between participatory data analysis and feminist research-traditions that complement each other but are rarely examined together. The chapters highlight two key approaches: methods where participants help analyze the data they contributed to, and non-hierarchical, collaborative methods involving research teams. Contributors demonstrate how to choose an approach that best aligns with one's research questions, study context, and participant availability and interest. They also encourage scholars to thoroughly describe their methodological designs, decision points, and processes rather than keeping the focus only on their findings. Through a feminist lens, the authors present a range of perspectives, resisting a singular approach. Instead, they engage with the fluid and contested nature of feminist research, each author drawing on different feminist traditions to shape their work. The volume encourages scholars to think critically about the co-production of knowledge, making it an essential resource for social science researchers and students who are invested in feminist and participatory methodologies.

Contributors: Nesa Bandarchian Rashti, Emma C. Cognet, L. Rebeca Esquivel, Jessica Fields, Sarah Flicker, Geetanjali Gill, Jillian Grace Goyeau, Nadha Hassen, Rebekah Hutten, Terra Léger-Goodes, Meegwun Logan, Catherine Malboeuf-Hurtubise, Mitchell McLarnon, Claudia Mitchell, Milka Nyariro, Kathryn Kendal Ryan, Kaylan C. Schwarz, Grace Skahan, Catherine Vanner, Angelina Weenie, Dawn Wiseman, 4theRecord Team.
Collaborative Methods explores the intersections between participatory data analysis and feminist research.
Collaborative Methods explores the intersections between participatory data analysis and feminist research. 28 B&W photographs, index
"Collaborative Methods presents nuanced and attentive scholarship that covers a breadth of examples and approaches. The contributors offer a collaborative dialogue which functions as a form of mentorship by inviting others into their research processes, quandaries, and tensions." Claire Carter, University of Regina
"Taking a feminist/critical approach, Collaborative Methods challenges the notion of scholarly objectivity put forward by positivist approaches to research and argues that true objectivity is not only impossible but also an undesirable stance." Rebecca Godderis, Wilfrid Laurier University

• Acknowledgements

• Participatory, Collaborative, and Feminist Data Analysis / Rebekah Hutten, Kaylan C. Schwarz, and Claudia Mitchell

• Chapter 1

• Collaborative "Sensemaking": Picturing a Feminist, Anti-Racist, Community-Based Participatory Action Research Dissertation / Nadha Hassen and Sarah Flicker

• Chapter 2

• Participatory Data Analysis in a Photovoice Project with Refugee Girls / Nesa Bandarchian Rashti

• Chapter 3

• Sculpting Possibilities for Feminist Praxis: Participatory Data Analysis and Clay-Elicitation with Young Men Involved in Gender-Based Violence Prevention / Grace Skahan

• Chapter 4

• Multi-Participatory Data Analysis: A Feminist Approach for Working with Transient Populations / Milka Nyariro

• Chapter 5

• Pivoting to Participatory Data Analysis in Transnational, Collaborative, NGO-Academic Research / Geetanjali Gill

• Chapter 6

• 4theRecord: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Collaborative Data Analysis / Sarah Flicker, Nadha Hassen, Jessica Fields, and the 4theRecord Team

• Chapter 7

• Collective Data Analysis as Feminist Methodology: Reflecting Through Research Memos on Education about MMIWG2S in Canada / Catherine Vanner, Angelina Weenie, Claudia Mitchell, Meegwun Logan, Jillian Grace Goyeau, and Kathryn Kendal Ryan

• Chapter 8

• What Do Teachers Need in the Context of Climate Change? Reflecting on Feminist, Interdisciplinary, and Collaborative Survey Design and Analysis Processes / Mitchell McLarnon, Dawn Wiseman, C