Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven, experts in urban studies and feminist ethnography, explore how feminist perspectives reshape research methodologies. They discuss the critical role of community engagement and art in enhancing academic perspectives, as well as the significance of amplifying marginalized voices. The conversation dives into the evolution of feminist ethnography and its capacity to challenge traditional power structures, all while sharing personal anecdotes that highlight the transformative potential of their collaborative work.
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Core of Feminist Ethnography
Feminist ethnography critically examines how gender intersects with race, nation, and other aspects of identity.
It focuses on the impact of these intersections on individuals' experiences within research.
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Meeting Sparks Long Collaboration
Christa Craven and Dána-Ain Davis met when witnessing a feminist ethnographer being dismissed at a conference.
Their shared annoyance sparked a 20-year collaborative academic friendship and multiple projects.
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Unexpected Museum Audience
At the Brooklyn Museum, Christa and Dána-Ain noticed an unexpected presence of many young Black men at an exhibit.
This experience highlighted how art spaces can be diverse and inclusive with interdisciplinary contributions.
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How do we acquire knowledge about societies? Does how we acquire social knowledge shape what we know? How conscious must we be of our own experiences as we do our research? What does feminism add to our methods and modes of research?
Now in its second edition, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022) by Drs. Crista Craven and Dána-Ain Davis answers these questions. The book is at once a how-to manual for doing feminist ethnography and a compendium of contributions from influential feminist ethnographers. Designed for students, scholars, community activists, and anyone interested in social knowledge, the book is multi-vocal and interdisciplinary and promotes critical methodologies as sites for reflection, collaboration, and creativity. It is a particularly important work for this moment in which anti-DEI efforts aim to minimize the work and perspectives of minoritized groups.
Dr. Christa Craven (she/her/hers) is a Professor of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the College of Wooster, and co-founder of the Global Queer Studies minor. She has published four books, including Feminist Ethnography. Her 2019 monograph, Reproductive Losses: Challenges to LGBTQ Family-Making was awarded the Council on Anthropology & Reproduction’s Book Prize in 2021, and selected by Women.com as a book that puts “the long, complicated history of reproductive rights into sharp focus.”
Dr. Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York and on the faculty of the PhD Programs in Anthropology and Critical Psychology. She is the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the CUNY Graduate Center. Davis is the author, co-author, or co-editor of five books including Feminist Ethnography. NYU Press published Davis’s Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth in 2019 and the book received the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology and The Senior Book Prize from the Association of Feminist Anthropology. Dr. Davis is also a doula.
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