Subjective emotions, political implications: Thinking through tensions and contradictions in feminist knowledge production

Summary, in English

Based on an ongoing research project in which we explore practices, strategies and
visions within feminist activism in a Swedish context, this paper emerges from experiences
during fieldwork with feminist activist groups. Focusing on tensions and contradictions
encountered during fieldwork, this article problematizes the social and emotional dimen-
sions of research. Through a discussion of our interactions with the research participants as
subjective relationships and as relationships of power, this article suggests that a closer
engagement with the research subject, and with what she can learn from the relationship
with the research object, can challenge researchers’ implicit assumptions and emotional
attachments, contributing to a destabilization of power relations in knowledge production.

• Author: Mia Liinason; Marta Cuesta
• Department/s: Department of Gender Studies
• Publishing year: 2014
• Language: English
• Pages: 23-38
• Publication/Series: ex aequo - Portuguese Journal of Women's Studies
• Issue: 29
• Links: http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/pdf/aeq/n29/n29a03.pdf
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Associacao Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres
• Topic: Gender Studies
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0874-5560